QotD #3

"I will strike them with chemical weapons and kill them all and damn anyone who is going to say anything,"
- Chemical Ali


"In virtue of the confirmation of the death of defendant Saddam Hussein, the court decided to finally stop legal procedures against defendant Saddam Hussein according to the Iraqi Penal Procedures Law,"
- Judge Mohammed al-Ureybi. Right yeah, like you got a choice eh?

QotD #2

"We certainly want to work with the president. We hope that when the president says compromise, it means more than do it my way, which is what he's meant in the past."
- Senator Charles Schumer

"It takes a woman to clean house."
- Nancy Pelosi

"Haniyeh said after late-night emergency talks with Abbas, their first meeting in two months, that they had agreed to "withdraw all gunmen from the streets and deploy police forces to keep law and order.""
- Branding is key. Call your gunmen "police" and you will be keeping "law and order".

"I would like to ask everyone in the country to prepare for life-threatening events like this for a while."
- Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont. Like how?

"Most of the incidents were caused by ill-intentioned people and those who wanted to create unrest in Bangkok."
- Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont. ~ others must have been done out of kind intentions.

QotD #1

"We are the police. We know who is good or bad by looking,"
- Achiravit Supanpasat, Thailand's deputy national police chief.


"You mean in your country, people are not punished for insulting the president?"
- Saddam, at an interview in 1990.


"No. In fact, they get their own television programmes."
- Reply from a US reporter.


"Senior government officials apologized late on Tuesday for erroneously saying the 17-year-old Boeing 737-400, operated by budget carrier Adam Air, had been spotted in the mountains of Sulawesi island after disappearing in heavy rain on Monday."
- You're never sure when you really find one because it can disappear right under your nose.


"Marriage between same-sex couples is legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa."
- General knowledge. Now you know...