Quotes About Politics In India

#1. I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

#2. I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

#3. Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

Sukant Ratnakar

#4. I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.

Shashi Tharoor

#5. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

Sanjaya Baru

#6. The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them..

J.G. Farrell

#7. India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

Narendra Modi

#8. I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

Narendra Modi

#9. Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra

Tuhin A. Sinha

#10. The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

Jean Dreze

#11. That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Satish Kumar

#12. The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Vandana Shiva

#13. The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.

Deepak Rana

#14. Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#15. The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

Narendra Modi

#17. Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

Pankaj Mishra

#18. I never aspired to be the PM ... Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

Tuhin A. Sinha

#19. Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

Narendra Modi

#20. Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.

Narendra Modi

#23. To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

David Frum

#24. It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

Tuhin A. Sinha

#25. I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

Narendra Modi

#26. Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.

Stephen Kinzer

#27. Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#28. Proving one's innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto for
a honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dear
ones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have your
freedom.

Sheeja Jose

#29. The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

Narendra Modi

#30. Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

Preneet Kaur

#31. I have squandered away my father's political legacy ... My personal life is in a mess ... Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

Tuhin A. Sinha

#32. The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#33. The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

Arundhati Roy

#34. We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Chetan Bhagat

#35. To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

Yann Martel

#36. I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Nandan Nilekani

#37. India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

Tuhin A. Sinha

#39. It [the Quit India Resolution] was very far from being the Gita, but like Gita it suffered from flood of explanations, commentaries, and interpretations.

R.P. Noronha