P. Chidambaram, finance minister
"No one can say... rising credit demand is bad or too much." On whether interest rates will harden
Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President
"We have oil for 200 years. $50 a barrel—that’s a fair price, not a high price."On his attempt to strike long-term deals with consumer countries
V.S. Naipaul, Nobel-winning author
"Here am I, a grown up man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life." On reading Jane Austen