Mamata Banerjee Quotes
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
Banerjee, Mamata. My Unforgettable Memories. Roli Books, 2012, p. 89.
Some Democrats had been making personal attacks on Herbert Hoover, Baruch a Democratic supporter was outraged and put a stop to much of it. His letter to Hoover is the high water mark in the ethics and methods of Presidential campaigning. 80 years later, there was a Republican Presidential Nomination contest in which there was almost no content other than personal attacks on the other candidates interspersed with personal attacks on the incumbent President. It was one of the low points of Presidential campaigning.
Most American politicians and citizens, unlike DeLay, believe that arguing against the opponents’ political philosophy should be done with debate, civil argument, advocacy, speechmaking and writing and not by attacking opponents and confronting them whenever possible. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011, the first woman to hold the office. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) party in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its first chairperson. She is often referred to as Didi (meaning elder sister in Bengali) by her followers and as Pishi (meaning paternal aunt in Bengali) by many of her critics.
