Amit Shah Quotes

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

A President in a sense is an elected kingship.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

As a nation builder, Nehru was a complete failure.

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election, 'This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better.'

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.

When the people gave them the mandate to govern in 2008, these UDP leaders had one thing in mind: They run things. They forgot all their lofty promises to the people. They set out to crush the PUP and to erase all the accomplishments of the PUP years in government.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

Maybe the future of Syria will not be a presidential system where one person will have all the power, so, the discussion about who should and should not rule Syria will become irrelevant. Let the Syrian people decide.

In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

Irrespective of their party affiliation or wishes on the matter, those governing from 10 Downing Street now have to take on much of the aura and role of head of state. And this is bound to have heavy consequences for their family.

To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider.

U.P. is a big state. I don't have enough leadership experience for such a big state. I requested the party for two experienced associates to help me and work with me.

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

The importance of the leader has always mattered, whether it was Indira Gandhi, V. P. Singh, or Narendra Modi.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

Development of Bengal is possible only under the governance of PM Narendra Modi.

The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.