They said it

They said it”The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill is the Left‚s biggest success to date. We worked hard to change the original draft which was flawed.”Prakash Karat, CPI-M general secretary in India Today (September 5)”In Gujarat, Hitler‚s life and works have been glorified in school textbooks. This is very serious.”Union HRD minister Arjun Singh (September 11)”Human progress is based on the progress of science. But science without conscience is something worse than no science.”Jacques Diouf, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in The Hindu (September 12)”Our belief is that Pakistan still controls the flow of terror and they must stop it for any realistic progress.”Prime minister Manmohan Singh in his meeting with US President George Bush in New York (September 15)”Hurricane Katrina has turned a superpower into a victim again. Only this time, few rally to the President. Rotting bodies lie like rubbish sacks in the streets of New Orleans, 42 percent of Americans think Mr. Bush has done a “bad” job, and the world looks at his catastrophe management in horror and derision.”Mary Riddell in The Guardian (September 16)”If it goes on being silent, then its culture and religion will be hijacked by the extremists.”Author Salman Rushdie urging liberal Muslims to speak up (September 22)”I do not feel responsible for everything that humanity does. I suppose I feel a responsibility when people take on the web expecting one thing and get something else.”Tim Berners Lee on his invention the World Wide Web (September 25)”You shouldn‚t see those people as an ocean of unskilled labour. You should see them as a pool of potentially skilled individuals. Think how many brilliant inventors there could be in sub-Saharan Africa or in the slums of Latin America.”Heather Stewart in The Guardian (September 26)