NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE

“No currency system can be successful if we have financial instruments denominated in just one currency.”

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

Pushing his call for new global reserve currencies to complement the dollar.

“My heart told me ‘I will survive.’ I kept telling myself: ‘Don’t die, don’t die, don’t give up.”’

Auschwitz survivor Meyer Hack

Who donated gold, silver and jewelry he rescued from the camp to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, as a tribute to the original owners, who perished.

“The government is clearly responding to public pressure.”

Blogger Yang Hengjun

In response to the Chinese government’s announcement that computer users are not required to install Internet-filtering software.