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"This is like inviting Pol Pot to a human-rights conference."

Mark Malloch Brown, former U.N. deputy secretary-general, on the appearance of Zimbabwe tyrant Robert Mugabe at the U.N. World Food Summit. Mugabe has been blamed for throwing his country--once the breadbasket of Africa--into a deep food crisis.

"We as black people now have hope that we never, ever had. I have new goals for my little girl. She can't give me any excuses because she's black."

Kwabena Sam-Brew, a Ghanaian bus driver living in Minnesota, on news that Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee

"No wise nation would be interested in making a nuclear weapon today."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the ...

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