Politician

It's not possible in this world to be friends with everybody. We have to choose friends and then stay with them.

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

Rahul Gandhi cannot be a prime minister because he is a citizen of Britain, and his Indian citizenship will be cancelled; he won't even be an MP.

If it's Clinton versus Trump, all Indians are voting for Trump.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

Rahul Gandhi gets a copy of every programme that has been started by the Centre during Parliamentary procedure, but he has got no time to read. He has got time to go to night clubs.

India can make rapid economic progress to become a developed country only through a globally competitive economy, which requires assured access to the markets and technological innovations of the United States and some of its allies such as Israel and Japan.

There is no concept of a Tamil nation. India is one nation, and Tamil Nadu is a part of that.

The UPA awarded Brijesh Mishra with the second highest award of the country after Bharat Ratna. I am suggesting that he was a Congress bug, a cat's paw. He was Congress' Trojan Horse. Even as he was the NSA, he worked for the Congress party.

The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.

Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.

India's educated youth is skill-deficient, risk averse in attitude, and largely unemployable in the cutting-edge manufacturing sector.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Marxists are coming around to seeing my views on the economy with greater perspective. I was the one who propounded that there should be a 'level-playing field' among nations on the economic front, that they cannot have low-interest rates in their countries and argue against cheap labour in India.

I am not interested in state politics.

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.