“By providing humanitarian aid to Gaza we also aim to foster conditions in which a Palestinian

“By providing humanitarian aid to Gaza we also aim to foster conditions in which a Palestinian state can be fully realized, a state that is a responsible partner, is at peace with Israel and its Arab neighbors and is accountable to its people.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State, after arriving at an international donors conference with a U.S. pledge of about $300 million in humanitarian aid.

“You’re seeing the U.S. is sinking lower and lower, and we’re still desperately searching for a bottom.”

John Mar

Co-head of sales trading at Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. in Hong Kong, speaking about sinking Asian markets.