"If needed, even Rahul will go to jail to revive the party in UP."
— Sonia Gandhi at a Congress party convention inKanpur
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"Statues of leaders should come up when they are alive...it’ll give themsome satisfaction too."
— UP CM Mayawati follows in the footsteps of Stalin,Mao, Saddam...
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"If the Twenty20 format is compared with fashion, I’d like to name itbikini cricket."
— Ex-India captain Rahul Dravid
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"It’s been a long time coming, but tonight...change has come toAmerica."
—Barack Obama, after winning the US Presidentialelections.
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"The people of India deeply love you."
—Manmohan Singh thanks George W. Bush for the Indo-USnuclear deal with this sweeping statement.
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"Dreams are not those you get while sleeping. Dreams are those that don’tlet you sleep."
—Akhil Kumar, Indian boxer at the Olympics
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"You are my lord, you’re my darling, you’re my orgy, you’re myfolly...."
—So sang Carla Bruni in the song ‘Ta Tienne’ (‘Yours’),dedicated to husband and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
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"Advani’s autobiography follows a simple principle—whatever goodhappened is attributable to him, whatever bad, to Vajpayee."
—Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi
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"We are farmers, not fools. Who is this Ambani to ride on governmentshoulders and build on our land?"
—A Raigad farmer, on the Reliance SEZ referendum
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"Yeeah, come on now, Jai hind, ek Sikh kaafi hai sab ke liye."
—Harbhajan Singh, after the Indian cricket team winsin Brisbane, to hand a series defeat to Australia in Australia for the firsttime
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"I don’t have a copyright over this name—if used non-commercially."
—Shahrukh Khan, on rival actor Aamir Khan calling hisdog Shahrukh
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"I can think of many who are in the way, starting with the wretchedtwo-timing biographers."
—V.S. Naipaul’s wife, Nadira, after an African witchdoctor offered to arrange juju revenge against the couple’s enemies
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"Leezza, my darling Black African woman...."
—Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to US secretary ofstate Condoleeza Rice, the first high-level American official to visit thecountry in 55 years
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What am I going to discuss with him (Ahmadinejad)?... My own death?"
— Israeli ambassador to India, Mark Sofer, in aninterview with Outlook
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"I studied in a convent school...and I’m secular."
—BJP’s PM-in-waiting L.K. Advani, during theanti-Christian debate
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"He’s young, handsome...and even tanned."
—Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi on US President-electBarack Obama
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"With all the pulling up I have been subjected to, I should have beentaller by a couple of inches."
— Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta ranting againstjournalists for reporting he had been "pulled up" by the Defence Minister
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"The first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed thathe is now."
— Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden on Harbhajan
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"Such small incidents happen in big cities. Why should I put in mypapers?"
—Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil had to, after hemade this comment after the Mumbai terror attacks
