Quotes by Bangladeshi authors

"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past"

"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay"

"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality"

"The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them"

"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy"

"Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?"

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism"

"I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law"

"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"

"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression"

"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic"

"We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland"