Sound Bites

"You traffic police are just small potatoes. How dare you stop my car? You are doomed to die if you do not get out of my way."

Li Jie, director of Baofeng county people's congress, Central China's Henan province, said after his plateless Toyota Camry sedan was stopped by traffic police officer Zhao Hui in downtown Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. The county official has drawn wide condemnation after an online video clip showed him threatening to kill the police, Chengdu Evening News reported on May 21.

"Overt devotion to teaching was self-destructive for professors. Those only concentrated on teaching would wind up at the bottom of the teaching hierarchy."