Voices

India Today
October 5, 1998

We won the war but failed to turn it to our advantage.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, saying that the Kashmir issue could have been solved immediately after the 1971 war

Like the Dussehra immersion, we shall sink the Central Government and only then take a breather.
Laloo Prasad Yadav, RJD chief, reacting to the Centre's move to sack the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar

They are doing it in a haste, it will be a waste.
K.M.R. Janarthanan, minister for personnel, on the Centre's decision to impose President's rule in Bihar

The BSP is an alliance in itself with as many as 600 different castes.
Kanshi Ram, BSP chief, on the issue of electoral alliances

That is why I used the word perception. Perception can change 10 times a day.
George Fernandes, Union defence minister, on the threat perception regarding China

An average Indian wants to be honest and our religion teaches us so.
N. Vittal, chief vigilance commissioner, on the CVC working like Lord Vishnu by instilling fear in the minds of the corrupt

It is difficult for a person to fly across three continents and play a match barely 12 hours after landing.
Mohammed Azharuddin, cricket captain, on Tendulkar's cool knock of 77 in the last one-dayer at Toronto

A film should say something. It should not be just a nine-course dinner.
Ram Gopal Verma, filmmaker, in Movie