Notable and Quotable

“It’s not, in our view, a zero-sum game, that if it’s two points for Russia it’s negative two for us, but there are ways that we can cooperate to advance our interests and, at the same time, do things with the Russians that are good for them as well.”

Michael McFaul

President Barack Obama’s top assistant on Russia, in a briefing before a summit between Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev.

“This is a very dark day in the history of the Uighur people.”

Alim Seytoff

Vice president of the Uyghur American Association, on violence in western China between ethnic Muslims known as Uighurs and China’s Han majority that killed 140 people and injured 828.