Quotes from Kapil Sibal

Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.

The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

M&A guidelines need to be liberal.

In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.

Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.