Personally he is known as one of the honest politicians in Bangladesh.
"He was looked up to as the last, or at least one of the last, honest politicians."
He is known as an honest politician and a middle class political worker.
"You undermined the opportunity and option for honest politicians to do a good job."
I saw a leader the other day that said you might just be the only honest politician in the country.
It was in those years that he established his reputation of an honest politician.
Finding honest politicians is not easy, particularly when campaign donations often amount to nothing more than bribes.
Well if he said it it must be true, we all know how honest politicians are.
"For 30 years," he said, "I have simply been an honest politician."
And the President says this is just one more trick by the media to embarrass honest politicians.