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

— Sheikh Hasina

When a journalist asked whether she believed the election had thrust the country deeper into political instability. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html (January 15, 2014)

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