Quotations of the day

Word has it that misgivings grow when the prosecution gets involved in any case. (A netizen of donga.com on Sunday, commenting on the failure of prosecution investigations to unravel a recent series of scandals and other major criminal cases.)

It pains me to see my husband¡¯s once youthful and handsome face now full of wrinkles. (Yu Sun-I, who found the name of her long-lost husband in the list of North Koreans coming here for the second reunion of separated families, commenting on a photograph of her husband made available to her by the (South) Korea Red Cross on Sunday.)

If the allegations are true, may I be struck dead by lightning. (National Assembly Speaker Lee Man-Sup on Sunday, denying a rumor that he secretly consulted with the ruling party to prevent a floor vote on a bill for the impeachment of the prosecutor general.)

We are not idiots and not criminals; we are alert and yet victimized. We are engaged at once in the sex trade and in the health trade providing relief for people. (The U.S. representative to a convention of sex workers in the Asia-Pacific region held in Thailand on Saturday, blaming the general public and the press for treating sex workers like outcasts.)