Smriti Irani Quotes

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

A radical ... and revolutionary ... attack upon the fundamental basic principle of representative democracy for free people.

In Ireland we got into the habit of electing our intellectual inferiors to high public office.

The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.

We live in a democratic country, and I take great pride in saying that I'm from India, a country where democracy is worshipped and freedom of expression is part and parcel of any person's fundamental right.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

There are many politicians who are from the Congress or the BJP or the Aam Aadmi Party who are all my friends and who are all young politicians between the ages of 27 and 35.

I was born in India… Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.