"Children are doing well in their studies — she does not like this. She feels, 'I didn't pass, then why should you?"
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about opposition leader Khaleda Zia's education, as Zia passed only in Urdu and Mathematics, according to the PM.
"Don't push the country into a civil war by delivering one-sided verdicts against our leaders. If anything happens against Quader Mollah, every house will be on fire."
RAFIQUL ISLAM KHAN
Jamaat-e-Islami acting secretary general
about the on-going International War Crimes Tribunal.
"Before our tenure expires, we will install at least two pillars of the bridge."
MATIA CHOWDHURY
agriculture minister
about the Padma Bridge.
"So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there last week?"
JOHN MCCAIN
US senator
about Iranian president Ahmedinejad's announcement that he wishes to be the first Iranian to go to space. Iran sent a monkey to an altitude of some 120 km for a sub-orbital flight, last week
"Her name is Mamata (caring) but her behaviour is not."
BIMAL GURUNG
chief of Darjeeling's Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM)
about Mamata Banerjee, who rejected the demand for separate Gorkhaland by seceding Paschimbanga.
"I am extremely hurt. I did not want this verdict."
KAZI ROZI
poet and friend of martyr poet Meherunessa, who was allegedly killed by Quader Mollah
expressing dissatisfaction about the life imprisonment sentence given to Quader Mollah for crimes against humanity in International War Crimes Tribunal -2 instead of death sentence.
