Jairam Ramesh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Responsibility #Fighting #Climate
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Sleep #Differences #India
Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Party #Mean #Airports
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Decision #Good Times #Tough
It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Country #Thinking #Japan
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Stars #Government #Shoulders
I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Thinking #Giving #Priorities
Donâ€™t get married in a house where there is no toilet,
-- Jairam Ramesh

#House #Toilets #Married
I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Thinking #Track #Environmental
If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Winning #Doubt #India
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Gdp #Growth #India
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Government #Agitation #Prose

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