Quotes from Arun Jaitley

Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.

When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a friend's house nearby.

The concept of UBI (universal basic income) is a good concept and when Arvind Subramanian had started it, I told him that Indian politicians will say continue the existing subsidies and give this over and above.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed.

Politicisation of armed forces should not be done.

No election is a single issue election.

We as a government are entitled to be criticised.

When you become a consultant to a political party, your views are no longer objective. You do it at a cost.