Quotations of the day

The achievements of the late President should be measured by today's yardsticks. (The Park Chung-Hee Memorial Work Association on Tuesday, in a statement denouncing the forcible removal of former President Park¡¯s bust.)

Because the school dishes out many ¡°F¡± grades to the students in order to upgrade their English language ability, the students tend to lose their zeal for learning English. (A freshman at Pusan National University in a notice carried on the university¡¯s Internet bulletin board.)

I felt a sense of disparity between the ideal and the reality in the legislative activities. (Rep. Lee Hahn-Koo of the opposition Grand National Party on Tuesday, commenting on the end of the first parliamentary inspection of the administration in the new millennium.)

It is suspected that the committee is functioning as a device that merely rubber-stamps the proposals submitted by the police or the Government Administration-Home Affairs Ministry. (Rep. Lee Jae-Sun of the United Liberal Democrats on Tuesday, disclosing during a parliamentary inspection of the ministry in question that the Police Council has vetoed only 3 percent of the total number of propositions.)