They said it in March

"I was deeply shocked to see a Frenchman express himself in English at the European Union council table" -- French President Jacques Chirac after he walked out of a meeting of European leaders in Brussels (March 21)

"Procurement and marketing are key functions in the hands of the farmers which can be sustained only through the cooperative pattern. Where cooperatives fail, there fails the only hope of rural India" -- Dr. Verghese Kurien in Times of India after his resignation from the chairmanship of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (March 25)

"It (Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government) is barking at the wrong tree. It thinks that farmers need off season jobs and cheaper credit, when what they really need is help in taking entrepreneurial risk." -- Prem Shankar Jha in Deccan Herald (March 25)

"I have a religious belief in the power of ideas propelled by entrepreneurial energy." -- Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in The Economist (March 25-31)

"Nobody in China believes in communism but they believe in the system. I’ve never met a communist in China. I know one guy who has to pretend he was a communist. He was an actor." -- James McGregor, author and China expert at the India Today Conclave 2006 (March 27)

"The new economic policy has pushed us in a direction where the poor seem to be becoming immaterial for the decision-making class." -- Social activist Sandeep Pandey at the India Today Conclave 2006 (March 27)

"Every stone is thrown at me, guns are trained at me and every arrow is aimed at me. I am even blamed for natural calamities that hit the country. And when the office of profit controversy came up, my opponents remembered Sonia Gandhi. I am their enemy No.1." -- Congress President Sonia Gandhi at a rally in Rae Bareli (March 28)

"A rich student has alternatives. For a poor student, a bad school is the end of the road." -- Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament (Amethi)