'The finance minister said, the MSME is the backbone of the economy. My question is, what have you done for the sector?'

'The food security along the coastal region will be severely affected.'

'When I said the Gandhi family had to step aside, it was because we have consistently seen that the public has not accepted them.'

'I am requesting Sonia Gandhi to listen to her inner voice again.' 'Then, she will know this is the time for the family to step aside.'

'You can walk wearing the hijab on the street, but not in a school.'

'I am not in favour of the hijab myself.' 'I personally think it wrong to make women shut themselves out of the world, where there is so much to see.' 'But I can't dictate to others about what they should wear.'

'What worked for the BJP were three things: Hindu nationalism, religion and a silent but strong anti-Muslim sentiment.'

'It will impact the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.'

'An ambassador may not be sure whether there would be a war next month, but prudence requires him to take action to see to it that people leave early.' 'Because once the war starts, it will be very difficult to move out.'

'It did not vote against America, or for Russia.' 'If we had voted for the American motion, it would have spoilt our relationship with Russia without any change in Russia's behaviour.'

'...to come back to power because it was not doing well.'

'Segregation suits the BJP at the moment. It will not suit them forever.'

'How can you explain the necessity of selling an institution that has been delivering regular returns to the government, that has never asked for any capital from the government, that has invested Rs 38 lakh crores in the Indian economy and that owns 4 per cent of the market capitalisation in India?'

'The boys allowed themselves to become tools of politicians.' 'That age is a dangerous one, children or young men and women can easily be moulded to hate.'

'The entire value of LIC is created by its shareholders because after the initial invest net of Rs 5 crores in 1956, the government has not given any additional capital to the LIC.' 'If the corporation has expanded and emerged as the biggest financial institution in the country, it is only because of the policyholders.'

'India's output contraction in the previous year was among the worst in the world!'

'Unemployment barely figures in the Budget except as a derived demand from the industry and infrastructure.' 'There is no effort at direct attack on unemployment.'

'Why should my vaccine certificate, which I got paying my own money, have the picture of the prime minister?'

'There is a vision in the Budget, and the vision is to take India from a largely agrarian, rural economy into a fast-track digitalised economy.'

'We have struggled to pay the rent, we have struggled to pay the electricity bill, we have struggled to send them to school, to buy books and uniforms but there was food on the table every day!'