Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 1097 Mon. July 02, 2007  
   
Star City


"city express"
The latest crop of quotes from the city's press -- words worth repeating, we feel, for their humour, insight or sheer outrageousness. Star City does not necessarily support the opinions expressed in this column.

"I have some proposals too, which I will place in the council"

-- Khaleda Zia
BNP Chairperson

Told reporters, on Saturday. Source: The Daily Star

"Why will someone be given scope to do politics and at the same time some others deprived?"

-- Sheikh Hasina
Awami League (AL) President

Told reporters after visiting some ailing AL leaders at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, on Tuesday.

Source: The Daily Star

"Write whatever you think you should"

-- Rawshan Ershad
Senior Presidium Member, Jatiya Party (JP)

Said at a press conference at her Gulshan residence replying to a query about the status of the present committee of JP, on Tuesday.
Source: The Daily Star

"I am in jail because of them [journalists]"

-- Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu
Former BNP deputy minister

Told reporters on his way to the court of additional district magistrate in Natore that charged him for arson and looting in three villages under Naldanga upazila in 2004, on Wednesday.

Source: The Daily Star

"If anyone makes a mistake while writing his father's name his father does not change"

-- Col (Rtd) Oli Ahmed
Executive President, Liberal Democratic Party

Told reporters after naming the party as 'Liveral Democratic Party instead of Liberal Democratic Party at the Election Commission, on Wednesday.

Source: The Daily Star

"They have initiated reforms under pressure of the current situation not for our pressure"

-- Barrister Mainul Hosein
Law Adviser

Told reporters hailing BNP's reform proposals, on Tuesday.

Source: The Daily Star

"We want to save the trees but what we can do?"

-- AFM Yusuf Haider
Pro-vice chancellor

Told a reporter after age-old trees were chopped down on the eastern side of Madhur Canteen to build a 10-storey building, on Tuesday.

Source: The Daily Star

Compiled by Durdana Ghias