“We have now put up for bid the construction of two more nuclear plants and we hope to fulfil this project through international contracts.”
Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, on the consequences of a new law obliging the Iranian government to acquire nuclear power for peaceful purposes (CNN online, 11 September)
“All the money for emergency response has gone to buy guns and cowboys – which don’t do anything when a hurricane hits. We were less prepared for this than we would have been on 10 September 2001.”
Hugh Kaufman of the US Environmental Protection Agency, on his country’s response…
