Rohini Nilekani Quotes

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow.

We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.

I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health services, water, electricity, public transport and safety of women are my top priority.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

Democracy has to deliver. It is not enough for people to vote. They must also eat.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organization.

I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.

No sensible elected politician would look for spending reductions out of sacking teachers and nurses. We all know how important they are and that our electors want to keep those we have and employ more where possible.

In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

Provision of best services to the citizens is our top priority, and Punjab government has evolved a coordinated programme in this regard.

A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.

Education, transportation and health care was what I ran and won on. That's what we're going to be focused on.

I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.