Indian Politician Quotes

lt should not be forgotten that we are carrying on the Government in the province under an irresponsible centre, and almost under the shadow of the scheme of the All India Federation which has been rejected not only by the National Congress but also by other political organizations and the Princes and the people of the States.

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

There have been a couple of key-points, for example in 1942, we had to close down the papers at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi, and during the emergency when we had to face the full wrath of the government. On both the occasions, we carried our policy to its logical conclusion.

We in this country also need to make sure that the doors of learning are always kept open because India still belongs to the developing world.

Fali Sam Nariman

In our warm climate, we have not got the same incentive to exertion and we may never be able to attain the same level of prosperity as Western people.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya

Some political leaders were trying to spread the poison of regionalism and casteism for narrow political gain.

The sadhu has always ruled the society. We sanyasis have come forward today to purify politics, just as Lord Shiva stepped forward to drink the poison which sprang from the churning of the cosmic oceans.

One problem is the destruction of the habitat, and the second is this constant catching of elephants for training, for tourism or logging. And this training that we are doing is the most brutal, primitive and stupid in the whole world.

Our activists will go around with a priest, a turmeric stub and a 'mangal sutra' on February 14. If we come across couples being together in public and expressing their love, we will take them to the nearest temple and conduct their marriage.

Pramod Muthalik

The need of the hour is to get people to talk to each other and to clear the air. I don't approve of fusion in art, but I definitely approve of it in the field of politics.

Why and how did our country fall from its brilliant antiquity to the degradation of pre-British days? The answer is that defeat of the oppressed castes at the hands of the Brahminic overlordship, of materialism by idealism, constituted the beginning of the fall of India's civilization and culture which in the end led to the loss of national independence.

E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety.

Syed Ahmed Khan

In England, justice is open to all—like the Ritz Hotel.

Justice to all, appeasement of none. [...] People who played the politics of appeasement have ruined the country, not us.

Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Patel's speech at Bahaddin College, Junagadh: If Hyderabad does not see the writing on the wall, it goes the way Junagadh has gone. Pakistan attempted to set off Kashmir against Junagadh. When we raised the question of settlement in a democratic way, they (Pakistan) at once told us that they would consider it if we applied that policy to Kashmir. Our reply was that we would agree to Kashmir if they agreed to Hyderabad.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

About the government, I think it is for the people — and, of course, journalists, commentators and intellectuals — to comment, which they have done copiously. All I would say is, I am grateful.

P. V. Narasimha Rao

The 'Digital India' initiative is one of the key measures to make government transparent, responsive and citizen friendly. The objective is to create a digitally empowered society and infuse technology into government, healthcare and education. From creating infrastructure to services, from manufacture of products to human resource development, from enabling citizens to promoting digital literacy, 'Digital India' aims to impact all aspects of life in India.

Unless the choice was unanimous, he would not throw in the towel.

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.

Prakash Javadekar

I now come to external relations. My government will honour all the commitments made by the previous government. It stands for friendship with all our neighbours and other nations of the world on the basis of equality and reciprocity and will follow a path of genuine non-alignment.

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.

I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

In India, I don't think any woman here is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet.... I am of the opinion, I don't think anybody is dictated here, you are not told.

He was of opinion that we should be able to convince the general English public, the working man particularly, that the reforms that I advanced would be far more beneficial to the English nation, particularly to the working man... If India is prosperous and rich, she would buy far more English produce and give work proportionately to the working man.

Dadabhai Naoroji