2013: Ideas Expressed

Sanctions or threats cant take us to Geneva. We were there for a new approach. The world,the region needed this8230;

Iranian ambassador Gholamreza Ansari

AAP has dismissed itself because they came up with a jhadu and said,We are going to remove corruption. Theres a big question mark on Mr Kejriwals consistency and him certifying himself

Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit

Terrorist organisations,terrorists have direct or indirect access to Congress

BJP leader Nitin Gadkari

BJP is a deceptive opposition,dont know about the alternative its providing8230; Does anybody know what the Gujarat model is? I dont8230;

Union minister Kapil Sibal

Using subsidised power,cooking gas and diesel,and then saying we cant afford food Bill8230; Why target only subsidies for the poor?

Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen

An Army general has no right to say these things. I would have thrown him out

Union minister Farooq Abdullah on former Army chief VK Singh

Theres no question of us backing a Cong-led govt again,whatever the circumstances

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat

Governance niyat ki baat hoti hai. It needs only integrity,ethics,some ordinary intellect

Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka

Its a misnomer that to appeal to the youth you have to write chill,chill,chill thrice Adman and lyricist Prasoon Joshi

I was thinking how many regulators the country has,and I couldnt count

SEBI chairman UK Sinha

What impact has Modis elevation made? The NDA is down to three parties

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

One cant survive by being anti-anyone. We dont restrict ourselves to any one grouping

JDU president Sharad Yadav

If Milkha Singh was born in present times,no one would have been able to break his record in 100 yrs

Athlete Milkha Singh

I have no say when environment ministry gives clearances for mining rights

Tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo

If state cant ensure security for 80 km of road in Bastar,youve failed in the basics

Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill

Post 9/11,the US has been engaged in a monologue

with the world

Filmmaker Mira Nair

When people ask me to quit,do you think it doesnt affect me? And how often do you want me to resign?

Former police commissioner,Delhi,Neeraj Kumar

Advani is neither tired nor retired8230; But he has never said he is in the race for PM

BJP president Rajnath Singh

UPA has to deliver before the next elections8230; There were issues where decisions should have been taken two years ago

Managing director of HDFC Bank Aditya Puri

Of course,we must look into environmental factors,but not by stopping development

Godrej Group chairman and CII president Adi Godrej

In this country,where religion is such an important subject,you cannot talk religion at a literary festival. That is a shame

Author Salman Rushdie

Unfortunately,the CM of Jamp;K can never be Indian enough for Indians and he can never be Kashmiri enough for Kashmiris

Jamp;K chief minister Omar Abdullah

Hard cases make bad laws,so you do not make a law based on any particular case

The late Chief Justice of India JS Verma

The way forward is to get the LoC incident off the cover pages and let the governments deal with it

Pakistans high commissioner to India Salman Bashir