Sheikh Hasina

"What do you want, that I should start crying, ‘Oh, crisis, we have a crisis!’ Do you want that?"

"At such an age our sons and daughters mostly need a right guideline, their problems need to be realised and more time is needed to be spent with them."

"I want work, I want work with honesty; corruption should be stopped, corruption shouldn't take place in any way."

"My priority is to establish this country as a poverty-free country, we have a long way to go – we have to do more. When I have been able to establish this country as a poverty-free country, a hunger-f…"

"My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation."

"Maintaining decency, we could go anywhere and do all of our works -- Islam gives that liberty and scope to women ...women have to create their own fate and work out their own future."

"I think that the friendship between Bangladesh and India is like a flowing river and full with generosity. This is the spirit of the people of the two neighbours. I think if our commitments are honest…"

"My job is to assist the common people, I do politics for the people, not for me ... People are enjoying democracy now."