November 29, 2012 "[W]e're not in a deep recession. We're not in a spiral of depression." by Portugal Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho -- --
November 28, 2012 "Any excuse to go to Mexico I'm always game." by President Barack Obama, meeting with Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto -- --
November 27, 2012 "[Britain must] pose the fundamental question: do you want to remain in the European Union?" by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti -- --
November 26, 2012 "I feel I have exhausted my political activity, which had never been an object of desire for me." by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak -- --
November 20, 2012 "Israel wants talks to succeed but we're prepared to go into Gaza." by Israeli spokesperson -- --
November 19, 2012 "The most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight." by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi -- --
November 16, 2012 "France is not the sick man of Europe." by Pierre Moscovici, finance minister of France -- --
November 15, 2012 "We will not allow Hamas to terrorize our civilian population." by Mark Regev, spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office -- --
November 13, 2012 "We clearly have different views." by IMF chief Christine Lagarde, on disagreements with the EU over Greece's budgetary target -- --
November 11, 2012 "No one should have a special relationship in the EU budget." by Austrian Deputy Chancellor Michael Spindelegger -- --
November 9, 2012 "The defenders of the Islamic Republic will respond decisively to any form of encroachment by air, sea or on the ground." by Iranian armed forces commander -- --
November 8, 2012 "You can be very happy on an island, but being alone in this world doesn't make you any happier." by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in response to suggestions that the UK should quit the EU -- --
November 7, 2012 "Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated." by President Barack Obama -- --
November 6, 2012 "We know that everything was rigged and the Electoral Council did what Daniel Ortega ordered." by Congressman Eliseo Nunez of Nicaragua's opposition party -- --
November 5, 2012 "If we fail to stay in the euro nothing will make sense." by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras -- --
November 2, 2012 "People inside [Syria] want any solution; they want security." by Rami, an activist in Beirut -- --
November 1, 2012 "There needs to be an opposition that can speak to every segment and every geographic part of Syria." by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- --
October 31, 2012 "The U.S. economy should be dinged." by Economist Eric Lascelles on the effects of Hurricane Sandy -- --
