Quotes from Sharad Pawar

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability.

Sharad Pawar is paying tax.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn't affect me because I know the truth.

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

I was leader of the Opposition when Vajpayee was PM. We attacked policies, not personalities, neither inside or outside the House.

I have always believed in cordial relationship with political parties and their leaders.

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

In the Congress, for every small thing, you have to consult the general secretaries.

I am used to controversies.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.

Indian cricketers need more exposure, and as cricket administrators, we need to beef up the domestic circuit. Only then will fresh talent come up.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation.