"The path you are following will not bring any benefit for the people. Instead you will lose public faith and confidence."

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

“All the democratic institutions are working and people are satisfied and people are enjoying it. So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people.”

“No people in any region would remain neglected . . . development of each and every person is important for the real and balanced development of the country.”

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

“As leaders and activists of Awami League, our responsibility is to fulfill the dream of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib so that every person in the country gets food, home, education, health care and prosperous life.”

“Since my last tenure we have been trying to find the root causes of poverty and how we could reduce it. We wanted to ensure food security so we put all our force into producing more food and also the distribution system so that food should first reach to the poorest of the poor. Then we tried to create job opportunities for them in the rural areas.”