"What a disgusting kind of agitation! A boy collected blood from a girl's body and poured it on the floor. I don't understand how such a perverted idea came to their minds and what examples the teachers are setting."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about the protest by students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, in which they collected blood in a syringe and smeared the stairs to the Vice Chancellor's office demanding his resignation.
"I have acknowledged my mistake, and those who don't admit mistakes lack moral strength."
AMA MUHITH
finance minister
about his remarks on the Hall Mark scam terming the amount swindled as not big enough.
"From the list, the chief adviser can be selected through a lottery."
DR AKBAR ALI KHAN
former caretaker government adviser
proposing a lottery system to pick the head of the non-partisan government during polls time to oversee the next general election.
'Your father had said that he found thieves' quarry. I want to tell the Prime Minister that those thieves have turned into robbers now.'
KHANDAKER MOSHARRAF HOSSAIN
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader
to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about her allegedly corrupt advisers and ministers.
"While Bangabandhu was the symbol of the Liberation War, Ghulam Azam was of the enemy side."
SULTANA KAMAL
eminent human rights activist and freedom fighter
about alleged war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami former Ameer Ghulam Azam's role in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
"I am proud of what I have done. If telling the truth makes me a traitor, then I am one."
ASEEM TRIVEDI
Indian cartoonist
after his arrest on charges of sedition brought against him for drawings that showed the four lions that form India's national symbol replaced by four wolves and the national slogan "truth shall prevail" replaced by "corruption shall prevail.
