Quotations of the day

As newly elected National Assemblymen are eager to emerge as prominent politicians through the parliamentary inspection and audit of the administration, it is hard to tell if it will be possible for fellow representatives to act as team players. (A Millennium Democratic Party official Monday, commenting on party secretary general Chung Kyun-Hwan's call for party colleagues to join forces to cope with the opposition offensive during the parliamentary inspection)

This job of police investigators is one that anyone must be prepared to do in order to make this world safe for our children to live in. (Choe Jong-Rak, advisor to S1, Monday, commenting on younger police officers' aversion to detective assignments)

We will plant cabbages, which consume less fuel for heating than tomatoes or roses. (Kim Jeong-Shik, a farmer in Kyongju, Monday, complaining about the soaring cost of fuel to heat his plastic greenhouses.)

U.S. President Bill Clinton cannot visit North Korea while continuing to blacklist it as "a terrorism-sponsoring state." (The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency Monday, forecasting the removal of Pyongyang from Washington's list terrorism sponsoring states.)