Sheikh Hasina

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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…"