"Voicebox"

"You can't take your wealth to the grave. You'll leave this world either with fame or disgrace. Money and wealth cannot be the only target. Rather, what you've given to the mass people will be counted."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
urging her party men to live an honest life instead of amassing illegal wealth “like the family members of Khaleda Zia.”

"It's funny that the prime minister is presenting a peace model while people are crushed under police boots in the country and the destitute scavenge for food in dustbins."
MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR
BNP acting secretary general
about the prime minister's peace model at the 66th UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

"It's true I didn't pursue my education beyond class eight. At first, I could not understand how to run the college. But with time, I have learned the ins and outs from some capable teachers."
EMAN ALI
chief of Borobazar College governing body
about his position which was bestowed by Abdul Mannan, Awami League legislator from Jhenidah-4 (Kaliganj upazila) because Eman Ali is the president of Borobazar union Awami League.

"The present government believes in freedom of the press, speech and thought. That's why we have asked the ministry officials to delete all disastrous ideas included in the draft policy."
OBAIDUL QUADER
chief of the parliamentary standing committee on the information ministry
about the draft national broadcasting policy

"The Haqqani network ... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency."
ADMIRAL MICHAEL MULLEN
chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff committee
about Pakistan's ties with Haqqani network, the most violent and effective faction among Afghanistan's Taliban fighters.

"No intelligence agency can afford to shut the last door of contact. Maintaining contact doesn't mean that you are endorsing or supporting that terrorist organisation."
MAJOR-GENERAL ATHAR ABBAS
Pakistani army spokesman
about the army's directorate of the ISI, that maintained contacts with the Haqqani network.