"Voicebox"

"It happened because of my mistake. I was so busy and worried that I signed the paper without looking at it. Somebody else will be a convenor now."
ABUL MAL ABDUL MUHITH
finance minister
about him being addressed as the head of the advising committee for the stock market.

"You can imagine how they feel when they read all those published in the media."
ABUL HOSSAIN
communications minister
about his family’s reaction to the allegation of corruption against him.

"The Nobel winner had tried from the beginning to convince the World Bank not to fund the mega project, but the bank authorities did not respond."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about World Bank's refusal to finance the Padma Bridge project based on charges of corruption.

"Khaleda has started giving certificate about who is war criminal and who is not. But where did she stay during the liberation war, how could she see it?"
SURANJIT SENGUPTA
Awami League leader
about BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's stance on the role of Jamaat leaders in 1971.

" Officials of the DCC do not want to make the standing committees functional because in their view they are an obstacle for them in earning money by illegal means."
MOHAMMAD MOHON
councilor of ward 69 and chief of the standing committee on water and power about the 16 dysfunctional standing committees of the Dhaka City Corporation.

"If the government doesn't make local government bodies functional, only dividing an area will not bring better results."
RASHED KHAN MENON
Workers Party President
about government proposed plan of splitting Dhaka city into two.