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"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts."

"Truth is commodity in political consumption."

"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."

"We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism."

"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"

"Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are."

"Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics."

"M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7."

"Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours."

"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."
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"Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends."

"Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it."
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