Jairam Ramesh Quotes

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.