Who said it?

It's incredible, it's surrealism. I don't remember … a blackmail so absurd

Jose Antonio Ocampo, ex-finance minister of Colombia on the U.S. government shutdown

It disappears like a grain of sand in the Sahara

Holcim CEO Bernard Fontana, on burning cigarette waste instead of coal for cement production

Opinions and criticisms can be raised … but if [officials] have tried their best, their efforts should be acknowledged

Former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen, on criticism of his term in government