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" What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice. "

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" I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma. "

" If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we? "

" 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. "

" Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not. "

" The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing. "

" An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that. "

" Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved. "

" 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. "

" The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise. "

" Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose. "

" There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India. "

" Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening? "

" The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions. "

" I have never applied for a share in Tehelka. "

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

" India should be an exporter of technology. "

" The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right. "

" Economists often get the market wrong. "

" The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government. "

" Corruption is in society and in every strata of society. "

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.' "

" You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master. "

" 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. "

" Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous. "

" My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope. "

" 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. "