"How long will you continue fixing nuts
and bolts?"
Abdul Alim,
chairman
parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings, to
the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation..
"The
Judiciary is easily accessible to the rich but beyond the reach
of the poor."
KM Hasan
The Chief Justice.
"If
I want, I can put the TIB in the dock by introducing a law in
the parliament."
Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar,
brushing aside a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)
report on the Jatya Sangsad.
"We
will be in the dock if we insult the Jatya Sangsad. But we haven't
done anything like that."
Professor Mozaffer Ahmed,
trustee member of the TIB reacting to the Speaker's comment.
"In
order to get a fuller picture, one needs to know the stock of
FDI at a particular point of time."
Chamber News,
monthly bulletin of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and
Industries on a Board of Investment survey.
"With
God's help we are still chasing the Americans and their allies
everywhere, including their homeland."
Ayman al-Zawahiri,
al-Quaeda's second in command in his latest audio-tape, aired
on the Al Jazeera television.
"Saddam
was held by the Kurdish forces, drugged and left for the US
troops."
Sunday Express,
a British tabloid, quoting an unnamed senior British military
intelligence official.
"We
are turning our swords to plough shares."
Shokri Ghanem,
Libyan prime minister declaring
his government's decision to
abandon its WMD
programmes.
"Libya's
good faith will be returned."
George Bush,
US president reacting to
Libya's decision.
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