Quotes from Kapil Sibal

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.

I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

I am a lawyer by profession.

The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.