Narendra Modi Quotes
Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.
Modi, Narendra. "Address to the Nation on Independence Day." PMIndia, Government of India, 15 Aug. 2014.
While there are dramatic exceptions such as during the Nixon and George W. Bush administrations, compared to most other nations were the indicator of official lying is a leader’s lips moving, the United States is among the leading nations with respect to official deception of the citizens.
Mondale was contrasting the Carter Administration with that of the then present George W. Bush Administration. The latter had misled the American people about the reasons for the Iraq war, and cabinet members had misled congress while the Vice President’s Chief of Staff was convicted of lying to the Justice Department as well as other transgressions of truth. The administration tried to seize a series of powers and implemented practices that the courts ruled were illegal and the Supreme Court twice ruled their actions illegal. At the time the nation was embroiled in the Iraq War. History may treat the Carter administration differently over time, but the general assessment of historians is that it was a poor to mediocre Presidency. Mondale, compared the Carter Administration to the hapless Bush 41 administration and not to Regan, the elder Bush or the Clinton administrations all of which were generally considered to be much better.
The notion that government had to be structured and limited was then utilized a century later in the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared that is by the established power structures. He is the only known person who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims—all were forbidden to read his works. He was the enemy of authority and advocated personal reason as the guide for men.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Her immediate reference was to George W. Bush and his administration who had not been candid with the American people as to the reasons for the Iraq War
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a majority in the Lok Sabha.
