"Nobody – be it small or other investors – is ready to give evidence against them. What can I do about this… Should I tell you those names?"
AMA MUHITH
Finance Minister
about the names that came up in the investigation of the stock market crash in 2010

"Sir, we can't trust your statements. You say one thing in the morning and go back on that in the afternoon."
HAFEZ ABDUR RASHID
Jatiya Party's Shyamnagar upazila unit General Secretary
to party chairman HM Ershad

"Jatiya Party is the third force. But people do not say so out of shyness."
HM ERSHAD
Jatiya Party Chairman
criticising the Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party and claiming Jatiya Party as the only political alternative.

"You speak against trade union leaders. But when Mozena becomes a trade union leader, you do not say anything."
RASHED KHAN MENON
Worker's Party chairman
about the garment industry unrest and US Ambassador Dan Mozena's concern about it.

"I have heard that ministers and MPs have started collecting multiple visas for going abroad."
ASM HANNAN SHAH
BNP standing committee member Brig Gen (retd)
alleging Awami League ministers and MPs are getting ready to leave the country in case the tenure of this government ends.

 

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