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I had aimed at more internal competition but this government is inviting [[w:Multinationals|multinationals across the world.

— V. P. Singh

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I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

I have always been straight in my dealings, whether now or in yesteryear. There was no flip-flop

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.

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.

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.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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