"Voicebox"
"Your silence has shocked me….I did not expect such behaviour from you."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about doctor's apparent disapproval of BMA Secretary General Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed’s request to render at least one day free service in their respective villages.
"It looks as though the government is punishing him for attempting to form a new political party in 2007 that could have challenged the existing two party system, rather than for proof of any wrongdoing."
LORD AVEBURY
vice-chair of the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group
about the removal of Grameen founder Prof Muhammad Yunus by the government from his post.
"Our friends outside may or may not be happy but we will take action in accordance with our law. The rule of law in our country does not depend on others' happiness."
DIPU MONI
foreign minister
about the remarks of Robert O Blake, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, on Dr Yunus's case.
"We know how safe our plants are and that we do not face a threat from such a serious earthquake or violent tidal wave."
ANGELA MERKEL
German chancellor
about protest in Germany against the government's plans to extend the life of its nuclear reactors.
"She actually had watched the television show 24 to get ideas on interrogation methods that they would then utilise at Guantanamo."
JIM CLEMENTE
FBI officer
about the enhanced interrogation techniques used by an American marine on suspects in Guantanamo Bay.
"And what you can tell from the way they dress the beard, the turban, the trousers for us it's clear, they are really part of al-Qaeda."
KHALED AL-KOAEM
Libyan deputy foreign minister
about rebel fighters trying to defeat Gaddafi's dictatorship.