<div>We’ve really got to up our game”<br /><strong>George Osborne, </strong>Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, after his China visit. The country’s progress ‘staggered’ him<br /><br />“If it’s growing like a weed, it’s a good chance that it’s weed”<br /><strong>Mark Zandi, </strong>chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, on growth in highly leveraged loans<br /><br />“I do not want to comment on statements made by Sheikh Chilli (daydreamer)”<br /><strong>Sriprakash Jaiswal, </strong>coal minister, responding to P.C. Parakh’s statement<br /><br />“There is K.M. Birla who made the representation, he is one conspirator. I, who examined the case and made a recommendation, I can be another conspirator and the Prime Minister, who as the coal minister, took the final decision, is the third conspirator”<br /><strong>P.C. Parakh,</strong> former coal secretary, on the coal block allocation controversy <br /> </div><table width="200" cellspacing="9" cellpadding="9" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="200" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="200" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=31b9b487-d340-405d-a8be-c04067f70b84&groupId=520986&t=1382954321535" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><strong>Veerappa Moily</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div>“Our competition is different... they’re confused”<br /><strong>Tim Cook</strong>, Apple CEO, taking a dig at Microsoft’s hybrid devices, at an Apple event<br /><br />“India and China’s is the most important bilateral friendship in the world”<br /><strong>Li Keqiang, </strong>Chinese premier, during the visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh<br /><br />“There are more people who go hungry in Madhya Pradesh than in Africa” <br /><strong>Rahul Gandhi, </strong>Congress vice-president, at a rally<br /><br />“India cannot become just like Russia, where investors are not prepared to go and billionaires are put behind bars”<br /><strong>Veerappa Moily</strong>, oil minister, on the FIR against industrialist K.M. Birla in the coal scam, just before the Prime Minister’s Russia visit<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 18-11-2013)</div>