“Too often, where we need water we find guns instead.”

“Too often, where we need water we find guns instead.”

Ban Ki-moon

U.N. Secretary-General, urging the world to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year.

“He was certainly there but he didn’t call the FBI. I have no idea why he received the reward.”

Hugh Sims

Pan Am flight instructor, on a $5 million reward paid to a colleague for providing authorities with information that led to the arrest and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

“The more we are squeezed, the more we will explode.”

Badr Abu Rekaa

A 52-year-old woman from Gaza, on Israel’s attempt to restrict the movement of people and goods in and out of that territory.