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"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."
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"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."

"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."

"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."

"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."

"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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