The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
