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Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Gender
Great Opportunity
Offers
Thousand
Thousand Years
Neutral
Hence
Inequity
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Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to bogus legal brains.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Legal
Vigilance
Report
Brains
Pm
Sacked
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I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people
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Chinese
People
Thinking
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The truth is truth. I have never made a charge in my political career of 30 years where I have been disapproved. No defamation case has succeeded against me.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Defamation
Charge
Political Career
Succeeded
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The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Education
Democracy
Development
Human Development
Come
Around
Possible
Full
Human
Essential
Skill
View
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I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Finance
Ministry
Corrupt
Brought
Governor
Surprised
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The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This has led to increased unemployment.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Rate
Unemployment
Collapsed
Industries
Medium
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Shaktikanta Das being appointed as RBI Governor is wrong. He has worked closely in corrupt activities with P. Chidambaram and even tried to save him in court cases.
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Cases
Court
Court Cases
Activities
Appointed
Corrupt
Closely
Governor
Save
Tried
Worked
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Chandra Swami is a good friend of mine, and he has devotees and well-wishers in every party, including the JP. That doesn't mean that he, or anyone else, can influence me.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Good Friend
Including
Influence
Party
Anyone
Anyone Else
Friend
Mine
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Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.
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Dna
Colleges
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As a good Brahmin, I think any money being given to me is dakshina. I will accept money from anybody as long as it is Indian. As a good Brahmin, it is my right to accept money.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Indian
Good Money Me
Accept
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It has been established that most Indians have the same DNA profile irrespective of caste, religion, or region. Yet we find our text books talking about India being multiethnic.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Dna
Profile
Established
Caste
Indians
Irrespective
Region
Text
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India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.
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Country
India
Violence
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Rahul Gandhi gets a copy of every programme that has been started by the Centre during Parliamentary procedure, but he has got no time to read. He has got time to go to night clubs.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Centre
Clubs
Parliamentary
Copy
Gandhi
No Time
Procedure
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I think the BJP is a joke. It is a party of semi-literates and has fascist tendencies. Such a party can never have real roots in India because Hinduism is the antithesis of fascism.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Antithesis
Fascism
Hinduism
India
Party
Real
Roots
Tendencies
Joke
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Why, when India's agricultural products are among the cheapest in the world despite a low yield per hectare, are we not able to double the production and export the products abroad?
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Despite
Yield
Abroad
Agricultural
Cheapest
Double
Export
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Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought shelter in Russia and was granted asylum. Jawaharlal Nehru knew everything.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Conspiracy
Granted
Russia
Shelter
Asylum
Japanese
Sought
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Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Bears
Human Emotions
Humiliated
Humiliating
Psychotic
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The Indian state has to be minimalist in regulatory interventions in social and economic matters; maximalist in providing the quality of life needs; and optimal in the maintenance of law and order.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Law And Order
Maintenance
Minimalist
Optimal
Providing
Quality Of Life
Regulatory
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Twenty years ago, when I spoke about women getting harassed by politicians, people said I was getting personal. Today, the climate has changed. It has become an epidemic. It's happening in every place.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Epidemic
Harassed
Twenty
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The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Changed
Development
Driven
Economic
Economic Development
Labour
Said
World View
Believed
Capital
Longer
Marshall
Stated
View
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In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Islam
Offensive
Prophet
Verses
Run
Final
Word
Muslim
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I had opposed the Jet-Etihad FDI arrangement on the ground of the disproportionate share of airspace given to Etihad, which is against the interest of domestic passenger traffic and also against national interest.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Traffic
Arrangement
Disproportionate
Domestic
National Interest
Passenger
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Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about 'true Islam' being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have not read any authoritative translations of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Eloquent
Humane
Islam
Peaceful
Programmes
Secular
Translations
Authoritative
Intellectuals
Wax
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Essentially, the BJP is nothing more than a north Indian party. Its mentality is also north Indian. They are quite capable of backtracking on the issues relating to Tamil Nadu if it suits them. But I will not allow that.
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Mentality
Relating
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We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing 707s to deliver them if we needed it, so I think we had a crude capability already at that time.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Eight
India
Thinking
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As an economist, the only advice I can give the Modi government is to take some steps that will raise the morale of the consumer and investor. That means income tax abolition and reducing the annual interest rate to nine per cent.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Abolition
Economist
Income
Income Tax
Morale
Rate
Reducing
Steps
Annual
Cent
Consumer
Investor
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As far as the opposition to Jayalalitha was concerned, it was that she was misusing authority for personal corruption, denying people their liberties, attacking the opposition with violence, and there was nobody who could challenge her.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Attacking
Authority
Concerned
Challenge
Denying
Liberties
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The UPA awarded Brijesh Mishra with the second highest award of the country after Bharat Ratna. I am suggesting that he was a Congress bug, a cat's paw. He was Congress' Trojan Horse. Even as he was the NSA, he worked for the Congress party.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Cat
Horse
Nsa
Suggesting
Award
Bug
Paw
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The Ministry of Civil Aviation should strongly recommend to the cabinet that Jet Airways should be merged with Air India, not only to ensure air services are not restricted but also to enable Air India to recover its former premier position.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Air
Aviation
Former
Jet
Ministry
Position
Cabinet
Civil
Enable
Ensure
Merged
Premier
Recommend
Restricted
Services
Strongly
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India's infrastructure is pathetic, with frequent electric power breakdowns even in metropolitan cities, dangerously unhealthy water supply in urban areas, a galloping rate of HIV infection, and gaping potholes that dot our national highways.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Cities
Electric
Galloping
Highways
Hiv
India
Infection
Metropolitan
Pathetic
Potholes
Rate
Unhealthy
Urban
Urban Areas
Water
Area
Dangerously
Dot
Frequent
National
Supply
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Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Antithesis
Centre
Political History
Movements
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As governor of RBI, Dr. Rajan has sent confidential and sensitive financial information to various persons around the world on his University of Chicago unsecure personal email address. This is a reckless disregard of the national security of India.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Confidential
Disregard
National Security
Reckless
Sensitive
Dr
Governor
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India can make rapid economic progress to become a developed country only through a globally competitive economy, which requires assured access to the markets and technological innovations of the United States and some of its allies such as Israel and Japan.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Access
Allies
Assured
Developed Country
India
Japan
Technological
Competitive
Developed
Globally
Innovations
Markets
Rapid
Requires
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The effect of the foreign direct investment of Etihad in Jet Airways and the implied bilateral agreement of air services between India and the UAE has primarily damaged Air India, which is a government-owned airline with huge assets that are extremely valuable.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Airline
Assets
Implied
Investment
Jet
Valuable
Bilateral
Damaged
Primarily
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I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Decision
India
Thinking
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See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Declaring
Jail
Vendetta
Me People See
Me People Help
Voted
Emergency
Gandhi
Sought
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I think there is a misunderstanding about Indians' traditional views. India did send army into Goa, India did send an army into and fought a war in Kashmir in 1948, India did get Hyderabad by force... I think the narrow projection on the international... arena distorted India's image.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
War
Army
Thinking
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Jayalalithaa was disqualified from contesting elections because of the Tansi case. I was the complainant. The public prosecutor conducted the case, but I provided all the documents and evidence. She was convicted. She could not contest elections, as her nomination papers were rejected.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Documents
Papers
Prosecutor
Rejected
Contest
Convicted
Disqualified
Nomination
Provided
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The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
People
Reality
Views
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The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Invention
Investment
Notes
Peculiar
Portfolio
Declined
Derivative
Participatory
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The problem with our country is that we don't ask for equality in treatment. They want free flow of capital into our country. Why do they not allow free flow of labour into their country? Tell me what is the reason why they don't allow people to migrate to the United States as and when they like?
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Flow
Migrate
Treatment
Free Flow
The Problem With
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This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no inflation in the Soviet Union, there is no poverty in the Soviet Union, there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. And now we find that, due to Socialism, there is no Soviet Union!
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Inflation
Poverty
Socialism
Soviet
Soviet Union
Unemployment
Now
World Day Every Day
Much
Every
Find
Due
Day
Eighties
Failed
Every Day
Say
Hear
Over
Union
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The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime of denying the nation's financial system the proceeds of wealth. Such denial should actually be declared as treason, where opportunities to share the wealth for the benefit of the poor are wilfully denied.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Avoiding
Crime
Denial
Financial
Financial System
Poor
Share
Taxes
Treason
Wealth
Benefit
In Fact
Major
Issue
Merely
Opportunities
Proceeds
Systemic
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My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Cost
Political
Weapons
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Marxists are coming around to seeing my views on the economy with greater perspective. I was the one who propounded that there should be a 'level-playing field' among nations on the economic front, that they cannot have low-interest rates in their countries and argue against cheap labour in India.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Collapse
Labour
Soviet
Soviet Union
Views
Argue
Cheap
Rates
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