Quotations of the day

The more, the better. (United Liberal Democrats acting president Kim Chong-Ho during a luncheon with the press corps Monday, expressing his view on his party members entering the cabinet)

It is a case with five nos -- no apology, no cooperation, no repentance from the politicians who received campaign funds, no clarification of truth and no one to take responsibility. (Millennium Democratic Party spokesman Kim Young-Hwan on Monday, commenting on the scandal involving the state intelligence agency's alleged campaign contributions to the former ruling party)

I tried to learn sign language, for what it is worth, but I have yet to build an administrative system that can substantially help the handicapped. (Seoul mayor Goh Kun on Monday, speaking to students working in the municipal administration; he gave this reply when asked about the inadequate maintenance of subway facilities for disabled people)

Please behave sensibly, keeping in mind its confusing and possibly adverse effect upon your religious life. (Bishop Kang U-Il, in charge of social mission at Seoul archdiocese, on Monday in a letter to Catholic clerics and laymen in which he warned against the recently fashionable practice of improving health through "kikong" and "abdomen breathing")