Quotes from Smriti Irani

It is a tragedy when you pay to make a public broadcaster survive.

The country's future is what you will make it. Make your local representatives in parliament and assembly more answerable. Ask for more transparency in use of public funds.

I feel travelling by road helps me connect with more people and understand their problems.

One should not encourage division on the basis of religion, region, caste, or creed if one wants India to truly rise as one of the greatest nations of the world.

You can't stop trusting people just because of a few people.

Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.

No character in a soap is indispensable.

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

At home, my children make sure that I fall in line and march to their tune.

I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.

Help me build the nation, not destroy it from within.

The unfortunate part of being an actor-politician is that people feel an actor will not take her political commitments seriously.

I do not want any policy to be formulated that impedes the spread of education in any fashion.

There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don't criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn't give a chance to young leaders.

I don't come from a unit family; I come from a Sang Parivar, Swayam Sevak family.

I think when somebody wants to work diligently, when somebody wants to take away the cobwebs and see where attention is needed, to fix things, there is obviously going to be a backlash from those who have, for years, gained from status quo.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.

Life is so unpredictable.

I take my work one day at a time.

Enhancing fabric production will also lead to strengthening the power loom sector.

The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.

I feel very strongly about my country and stronger still about people who abuse my country.

I think when anyone struggles, they think they are being short changed.