¡°It¡¯s fun to set off fireworks, because you can hide in some place after lighting them and watch the cops looking for you everywhere.¡±

¡ª A Beijing resident who was detained on Chinese New Year¡¯s Eve for illegally lighting fireworks.

¡°Roses are poisonous.¡±

¡ª Flowers sold in a Taiwan market during Valentine¡¯s Day were found to be contaminated with pesticide residue. The institute of customer rights appealed to residents on the island not to put them in food or drinks.

¡°It¡¯s nothing related to patriotism.¡±

¡ª Lei Yi, scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commenting on Lang Ping¡¯s decision to coach the American National Women¡¯s Volleyball Team. Lang was a legendary Chinese player in the 1980s and once coached the Chinese national women¡¯s team.

¡°Most Chinese people choose to say nothing after buying substandard food because the process of making complaints is too expensive.¡±

¡ªWu Gaohan, of the China Consumers¡¯ Association, explaining why so few Chinese complain about poor-quality food.

¡°I don¡¯t agree that the law should be changed to allow foreigners to be employed as civil servants.¡±

¡ªProfessor Jiang Ming¡¯an of Peking University, noting that no other country permitted foreigners to engage in policy work inside its government.