Bihar Quotes

• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Education, Money, Powerful

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

  Narendra Modi

  Intelligent, People, Earth

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• Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Body, Damage

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• India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Successful, West

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• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Travel, Adventure, Nuclear

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• You can change friends but not neighbours.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Change, Neighbour

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2000). “March 1998 to March 1999”

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• I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Voice, People, Heaven

  Mid Day, February 09, 2005.

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• For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Campaigns, Connections, Calamity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Abet, Terrorism, Partnership

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Self, World, Spirit

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• The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Reality, Institutions, Unesco

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Years, India And Pakistan, People

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• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Government, Dwelling, Half

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• There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has cast so vast a spell on me.

  Sukanta Bhattacharya

  Rivers, Profound, Strange

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Cold, Problem

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Stronger, Would Be, Conviction

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Diversity, Benefits, World

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Believe, Play, India And Pakistan

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• The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Unique, Perception

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Mean, Developing Countries

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Meaningful, India And Pakistan, Use

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• It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Government, Special, Development

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