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" You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them. "

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" Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries. "

" Foreign and domestic investors will come only when they know that you have enough power. "

" We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices. "

" Gujaratis are smart people. "

" A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality. "

" I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers. "

" I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right. "

" I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space. "

" Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load. "

" Western countries have gone through their development cycle and enjoyed the fruits of ruining the environment over many years and are now giving us homilies and pontificating on responsibilities to the environment. I think they need to look inward. "

" I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators. "

" If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce the GDP. "

" Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business. "

" I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost. "

" Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA. "

" States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government. "

" Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies. "

" In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal. "

" When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices. "

" I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power. "

" I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go. "

" My father studied under a street light in a small town in Haryana. "

" UDAY is meant for financial and operational turnaround of discoms. "

" Power for all includes people who are interested in getting a connection. It cannot be for people who don't want the connection. Having said that, I am confident everybody will apply for power once they are sure that they will not be short-charged. "

" Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi. "

" We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability. "

" I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution. "

" Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control. "

" I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments. "