"Should you suggest the caretaker government, please join politics and make political statements."
DILIP BARUA
industries minister
criticising Prof Yunus and Brac Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed for recommending the caretake government system for peaceful general elections at a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Dhaka.

"With all due respect, he (the industries minister) is not even worth Dr Yunus's nails."
BARRISTER RAFIQUE-UL HUQ
veteran lawyer
about industries minister Dilip Barua's comment on Dr Yunus.

"It is not possible to get Hitler and Mussolini now. In the twenty-first century the biggest war is against poverty and for human rights."
DR AKBAR ALI KHAN
former advisor to the care government
about Syed Ashraful Islam's denigration why Dr Yunus being an economist was given the Noble Prize.

"The prime minister herself had lobbied for the Nobel Prize and invested money, but she failed as it is not possible to get this prize this way."
MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR
BNP acting secretary general
about the ruling party ministers' unprecedented criticism of Professor Yunus.

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