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“What about having a new law that made all cabinet members and leaders of political parties, editors of national newspapers and the hundred most successful financiers in Britain spend a couple of hours every year serving dinners in a primary school on a council estate, or cleaning bathrooms in a residential home?” Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury’s suggesting that the wealthy should be forced by law to help the poor and needy.
“The CPI (M) should be the last to talk about corruption. Those who have looted crores of rupees from all corners of Bengal in the last three decades are making wild accusations without any basis.” – Mamata Banerjee firing back at the CPI (M) over allegations that black money is funding her election campaign in West Bengal.
“We had been taught that if the belt does not go off, we should kill ourselves with the grenade. There were three policemen standing close by, and I thought if I killed them too, I would still make it to heaven.” – Umar Fidai a 14 year old Pakistani boy who was brainwashed by the Taliban into becoming a suicide bomber.