Narendra Modi Quotes
The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.
Modi, Narendra. "Address to the Indian Community at Madison Square Garden, New York." Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, 28 Sep. 2014.
The presidents had announced that they would resume diplomatic relations and allow trade, tourism, and other exchange after 40 years of U. S. policy boycotting Cuba to produce more democratic reform and regime change. Fidel Castro, however, became the longest serving ruler or leader of any country in the world, and despite (some argue because of) the boycott was also one of the most popular leaders. The boycott was based on faulty intelligence and after 40 years of no results, President Obama's administration reversed the historical policy that had not been working though there were some American Castro haters who objected to the change arguing that with more time and the death of Fidel Castro who was ill at the time, the boycott would be effective and then we could negotiate for something in exchange for lifting the boycott.
He and Thomas Jefferson were the two most vocal propononents of this view amongst the Founding Fathers.
The Great Depression, even more so than the Great Recession, shattered the faith of most people in the Capitalistic system as it was then operating. Conservatives like Stimson believed that reform could be achieved without diminishing the rights of the individual vis a vis the state. To a great extent he was right, but ironically, it tool a liberal like FDR and a Democratic Congress to make the necessary reforms the Republicans would not make and at the same time, not go so far as to reduce the freedom of individual action protected by the Constitution. Arguably, there are several areas where Americans have much more freedom in modern times than they did in 1929 when Hoover’s inaction brought on the Great Depression so severely. Today, minorities, women, dissidents, religions all have much more freedom that in 1929.
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.
