You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

True wars are never won.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants.