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V. P. Singh
18 quotes
“I would be a disaster as a prime minister.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: India Today 10 quotes that said it all, India Today, 19 December 2008.
“Everybody knows I worked with Rajiv closely and we also fought each other over our beliefs. We fought the elections on the (Bofors) issue and the people gave their electoral verdict. It was an honest fight and I want to make it clear that at no point of time did I make the charge that Rajiv personally took money in the Bofors affair.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Rediff.com, At no point did I charge that Rajiv personally took money in the Bofors affair, rediff.com, 7 February 2004.
“I have always been straight in my dealings, whether now or in yesteryear. There was no flip-flop/”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The visual always fascinated me. As I grew up, I slowly realized that we not only see through our eyes, but also from the heart. Feeling is living. Beauty is understanding. I was overwhelmed by the harmony of creation. My youth was one rapturous communion with nature. The ecstasy is gone but fragments of its memory, still, at times, shimmer, to give a sudden insight. My paintings are such fragments. Yes, they are fragments because my life is so.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Sushmita Dutta Singh: The Renaissance Man (25 June 1931- 27 Nov 2008), Zeenews.com
“I do not know why everybody says that I am after power. If I were after power, I would have accepted it in 1996 when so many leaders came to my residence asking me to become prime minister.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe whoever is in power, people should fight the establishment over issues. This is the weakness of our democracy. We vote, then for five years we remain dormant. The farmers’ movement will remain but we need a formal political party to fight elections.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their argument was that no one comes here to sit with prayer beads, they all have ambitions and if they are not fulfilled, they go away.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While politics is the art of the possible, history is the art of the impossible. I have never hesitated in attempting the impossible. What is historically relevant may not be politically prudent. One has to make one’s choices.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, I have not been able to reconcile them. It is, perhaps, because of the conflict of the different approvals the different persona demand. The political personality survives in no small measure on approval of others. The creative personality needs an emotional seal. The ethical one ordains the approval of one’s conscience. I have not been able to integrate them.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I said bring equity back on the national agenda. And equity is a broad concept with facets like political equity, decentralisation, electoral reforms, freedom of the press. It includes economic and social equity: for women, for SCs and STs, for the minorities.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we have to ask is not what we have got out of it, but what we have been able to get for the poor and the oppressed. For one, equity is now on the national agenda. No party can ignore it. They now enumerate how many candidates, chief ministers, Rajya Sabha members they have fielded from the deprived sections. The same is true of the choice of President or vice-president. So we have changed the political environment.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Dalits are a powerful secular force. Then, the backward forces can provide an effective bulwark along with the minorities against the forces of coramunalism. Because what has been established in the past half a century is the upper caste Hindu raj, depriving the backwards and the minorities.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gandhi, Nehru and all did try to improve the situation. They tried to break a lot of economic and social stratifications. But inertia and the system prevail.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An iniquitous social structure has produced an iniquitous power structure. Individuals and parties are not at fault. Political, social and economic monopolies exclude a large section of the masses from decision-making. To that extent they are undemocratic. So far teams of the ruling elite played and the rest were called to applaud. Now the onlookers are saying we also want to kick and net a goal, and we have our own team.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had aimed at more internal competition but this government is inviting multinationals across the [[world.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing the ruling elite should understand, if we keep driving the deprived sections of our society to the wall, we'll have more unrest. Hang V.P. Singh, but give the deprived justice. Otherwise this country will go beyond anyone's management.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As regards foreign investment, I said we have our own priorities and cannot open up so others can exploit us...Cutting red tape is one aspect of liberalisation, inviting all multinationals across the world is another thing. What I aimed at was a model of more internal competition, but resisting foreign capital.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The market theory is, there should be international mobility of capital. I said, why not international movement of labour? Marketing theory only envisages mobility of all factors of production. That means their medicines can come, but our doctors cannot go. Their engineering goods can come, our engineers cannot go. Secondly, they want the developing countries to open up but deny them access to technology. Certainly, our economies have been too protected. But that has to go gradually.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source