Weekly Report - 20 April 2004

Quotes of the week

Postscript 27 April 2004 Modified: 20 April 2004 195 views
“If we keep up this resistance effort, this will last six months, and by then this government will have ended."

Gerardo Blyde, Venezuelan opposition congressman, on the filibuster delaying a law to amend the composition of the supreme court.


“We have to take into consideration that [Louis Jodel Chamblain] helped rid Haiti of two dictators: Duvalier and Aristide."

Bernard Gousse, Haiti's justice minister, on the possibility of a pardon for the former paramilitary, now rebel leader, sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murdering one of Gousse's predecessors.


“Illegal immigration cannot be rewarded with amnesty."

Jim Oberweis, Republican aspirant to a seat in the US senate, on his reasons for opposing Bush's immigration plan.
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