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They said it
"If this is the attitude of the government… then wind up the courts and do whatever you want."
Chief justice of India R.C. Lahoti commenting on criticism over its recent order doing way with quotas in private professional colleges (August 22)"Let me say there can be a difference of opinion over the size of fiscal deficit. But no country in the world that I know of has got rich merely by spending its way to prosperity." Prime minister Manmohan Singh in the Rajya Sabha (August 23) "What we have learnt from the Chinese is: don’t stick to dogmas; learn the truth from the facts." Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, chief minister of the communist ruled West Bengal (August 23) "Reforms have widened inequity, but it cannot be done away with. However a measure of regulation must be introduced." CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury (August 24) "For the farmer to be free from indebtedness and to be able to make adequate profit it is absolutely necessary to provide a network of modern marketing facilities." Sharad Pawar, Union minister for food and agriculture (August 24) "Poor countries are free to do what rich countries tell them. The cost is huge. Christian Aid estimates that Africa has lost $272 billion in the past 20 years from being forced to promote trade liberalisation as the price for receiving World Bank loans and debt relief." Mark Curtis in The Guardian (August 24) "Outcome Budget will ensure the flow of right amount of money at the right time to the right level with neither delay nor parking of funds." P. Chidambaram, Union finance minister presenting the historic Outcome Budget (August 25) "We are a country of one billion people and we have the right to get that seat. One day, I am sure we will get it." President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on India’s bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council
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