Narendra Modi Quotes
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a government function, I talk about government related topics. If I attend a Railway's function I talk about railways, if water then water, if water bodies, then water bodies. My focus is on governance.
Modi, Narendra. Interview by Fareed Zakaria. Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN, 21 Sep. 2014.
Many people think that running a corporation is good training and demonstrates the ability to run the country. However, business leaders who have come into government, almost all like Breton, think the two are very different.
Although the Turks were the enemy, the British when they “liberated” an area, turned to the local governors of the territory and asked them to “carry on,” supplying them with resources if necessary. This was just the opposite of the George W. Bush administration strategy in the Iraq War of 2004, where after taking Baghdad, all the old politicians and governors were arrested and the police and other infrastructure was removed. The replacements were inexperienced and had little respect and influence and the city fell apart. The moral hypocrisy of the British left the “bad guys” in place running things for them instead of the Turks. However, they were able to keep the cities running and keep control of the entire situation.
The English considered the new American diplomats very difficult to deal with and felt that gentlemanly English diplomats were ill suited to the task. He recommended:
Ethiopia was constructing on the Blue Nile, the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa,. The water supply to Egypt is possibly likely to be somewhat reduced. Since Egypt’s 85 million people get 97 percent of their fresh water from the Nile, this has become a major issue in Egypt. Of course when Egypt constructed the Aswan Dam they, they were not concerned by any environmental effects it might have on other nations,
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a majority in the Lok Sabha.
