Arvind Kejriwal Quotes
We are against crony capitalism.
Kejriwal, Arvind. "Address to the Confederation of Indian Industry." Business Standard, 18 Feb. 2014.
Rove had bridged the traditional gap between the right wing Religious fundamentalists and large business, industrial, heavy donors to the party. These groups usually diverged on economic policy and cultural values however Rove had convinced both that they should tolerate the other for the sake of maintaining power for President George W. Bush who delivered enough to each to hold them in coalition. Rove’s style tended to moralize everything for the religious right including their cooperation with major exploiters of economic self-interest. Rove’s religious tactics which were so successful was a subject of great interest and analysis, especially since Rove himself was an agnostic.
The “regulation” to which Franklin objected was not the type of regulation we have today. It was generally limited to the granting of monopolies to individuals or their companies if they would institute a service that was perceived as beneficial by the public as a whole. For example, a company might build steamboats and provide regular service across a river or along it. The company would argue that the initial cost and investment is so great, that they are entitled to a period of protection so that they can be sure of getting their investment back. In most cases, they would have made the investment, monopoly or not, and in many cases the public officials are unsophisticated and make a bad deal; in others there was (and is) outright corruption. Countries like Norway, have been so burned by the problem Franklin observed, that they try to avoid even government monopolies of service. They for example, have private and public light rail commuter lines which continuously compete against each other.
He and his brother were the largest political contributors in the United States, so they had enormous influence on Republicans (they only made political contributions to conservative organizations).
Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician and a former bureaucrat who is the current and 7th Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. He was also the Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to February 2014, stepping down after 49 days of assuming power. Currently, he is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, which won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a historic majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats. In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against government corruption. The same year, after resigning from Government service, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).
