Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kapil Sibal - Page 2

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.

I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

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

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

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

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

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

Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

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

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.

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

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.

If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.

M&A guidelines need to be liberal.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

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.

BJP is the mothership of violence.

The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sports can't be run by governments.

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

Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

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.

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

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

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

Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.