Words matter. These are the best Kapil Sibal Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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.
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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.
By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.
If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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.
Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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.
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.
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can’t play cricket without any rules.
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
I have only one sister, Asha Nanda, and she lives in Maharani Bagh.
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.
Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
There’s a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.
If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song’s recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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.
To fix India’s healthcare scenario, what is most needed is ‘systems thinking.’ For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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.
We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of ‘ethos.’
To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.
I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
Economists often get the market wrong.
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
Corruption is everywhere. It’s not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
I am a lawyer by profession.
It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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.
Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
