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" That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate. "

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" I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system. "

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" We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world. "

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" Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it. "

" Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it. "

" Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised. "

" I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard. "

" We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect. "

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" In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal. "

" If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000? "

" Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say. "

" Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences. "

" If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations. "

" Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst. "

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" Public interest is a very unruly horse. "

" The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission. "

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" When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars. "

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" Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator. "

" Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers. "