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“We will solve this problem. We are problem-solvers.”
GEORGE W BUSH
US president
about the humanitarian crisis that has been created by Hurricane Katrina.

“It was intended to install a puppet government in the country, which in the long turn will re-establish undivided India.”
RIASAT ALI BISWAS
Jamaat-e-Islami MP
in a written notice at the national parliament
about August 17 bomb blasts.

“They have dispatched your sons and daughters to die lonely deaths in the burning deserts of Iraq and unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan.”
ADAM GADAHN
AL-Qaeda spokesperson in the US
in a video-tape message.
He lives in Orange Country, California.
Gadahn has told his auditors not to "believe the lies of the liars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 10 Downing Street".

“Fuel-price has been increased, import duty has been reduced: in spite of these if the donors do not give us loan, we will never take their money from them.”
M SAIFUR RAHMAN
finance and planning minister.

“Teachers beat us so mercilessly that we forget what we have learnt.”
MONI
a child-worker who goes to a school in Mirpur-14
at the "Children's Parliament".
Children - mostly from lower and middle class background - are regularly beaten up by teachers at schools across the country.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. .
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <ahmedehussain@gmail.com>
Cartoon : MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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