“What I want to say first is, are there three people in this debate, not two? And I also want

“What I want to say first is, are there three people in this debate, not two? And I also want to know ... on behalf of voters here in South Carolina, this kind of squabbling, how many children is this going to get health care?”

Former Sen. John Edwards

Of North Carolina, reacting to a heated exchange between his rivals, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, at a Democratic debate in South Carolina.

“There is no reason at all to allow the worries of the Western world to overwhelm us.”

P. Chidambaram

Indian Finance Minister, in urging investors to remain calm after trading in Mumbai was halted after the Indian stock market fell 10 percent within minutes of opening.