Voices

India Today
Nov 16, 1998

We want peace, but you cannot clap with one hand. Even for love you need two people.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, on India's desire for friendly relations with Pakistan

It may be anyone's cart but the bridle will always be in the BSP's hands.
Kanshi Ram, BSP chief, on his party playing a balancing role in the event of a hung assembly in Rajasthan

At 76, you don't have a future. You have a past. I owe no one anything, no one owes me anything.
V. Kurien, NDDB chairman, on his impending retirement

Congress is not communal ... though it has been backing communal elements.
H.S. Surjeet, CPI(M) general secretary

Don't teach me sportsmanship. It is there intrinsically in me.
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, on his persistent demand to ban the Pakistani cricket team from playing in India

Dissidence is new for the BJP. We are old masters with experience and know-how for controlling dissidence.
Digvijay Singh, Madhya Pradesh chief minister

The Centre has conspired to send me to jail so that I cannot campaign for the assembly elections.
Laloo Prasad Yadav, RJD chief

Forget biological clocks. There's no right age for creating art or babies.
Rekha, actress, in Filmfare