I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

After Independence, Congress ignored the potential of India, which is why even 6-7 decades later, the country could not achieve the success it deserved. There were two main reasons: for a long time, the Congress government kept the country entangled in a 'license raj', and when globalisation arrived, they focused only on imports and even then misappropriated thousands of crores.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.