Quotations of the day

I think ``2 billion won plus an unconfirmed amount of money (allegedly a slush fund amassed by President Kim Dae-Jung)¡¯¡¯ is also the amount in question in the case of the former Agency for National Security Planning (NSP). (Rep. Ha Soon-Bong, a vice president of the opposition Grand National Party, in an address to a meeting of about 200 heads of the party¡¯s local chapters Tuesday; the meeting took place prior to their visit to Cheong Wa Dae to protest the prosecution investigation NSP's alleged use of budget funds to finance election campaigns by the former ruling party).

North Korea and China hold exchanges according to their own needs. (A high-ranking official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, saying Tuesday that the rumored visit to China by North Korean National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong-Il is not a cause for concern because it does not mean the North will be hostile to South Korea).

In order to have the wealthy and members of the ruling elite acknowledge the spirit of noblesse obliges. (Royal Society, a portal site targeting the wealthy, explaining Tuesday the background for its plans to reward "honest taxpayers" who paid large amounts of income tax).

The streets in our village are our homes. (A donga.com netizen, saying that piling rubbish and otherwise dirtying the street in front of one¡¯s house is to soil one's home).