Voices

India Today
August 17, 1998

I will abide by what I said in Doda if the Government fails to control the situation.
L.K. Advani, Union home minister, telling the Opposition in Parliament that he would step down if killings don't stop in Jammu and Kashmir.

BJP leaders, who once claimed to have stood for some principles, had to stoop to this level because of the bad company they keep.
M. Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu chief minister, after his name figured in the BJP Government's Action Taken Report on the Jain Commission Report We have the habit of injecting politics into every blessed thing.

Ramakrishna Hegde, Union commerce minister, saying that developmental work suffers due to political instability If our people can perform so well outside the country, why can't they do so here?
N. Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh chief minister, in The Times of India

There can't be national security without food security, job security, health security and social security.
P.A. Sangma, former Speaker and Congress leader, lambasting the foreign policy of the Vajpayee Government, in Parliament

I need to give something back to the game that I love and to my motherland.
Vishwanathan Anand, chess Grandmaster, on his plans to set up a chess academy

During a romantic scene, I get so involved that I feel attracted to the hero.
Twinkle Khanna, actress, in Filmfare