Quote of the Day
| Buk |
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 1:30 PM |
"It's not every day that they have to pick up corpses and sometimes pedalos [pedal-operated boats] work well. None of the corpses complained."
-- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, commenting on the recovery of about 35 Liberians who drowned when their boat capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
"Perhaps you would have preferred it if the bodies had been picked up in a big boat."
-- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, again commenting on the use of pedal-operated boats to recover the bodies.
