“Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He’s responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.”

The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all, there is a difference between tourism and faith.

For any party or alliance, it is imperative to get at least 272 Lok Sabha seats to claim the PM’s post.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship. Rahul Gandhi’s real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Once, Azamgarh was known in the field of education and literature, but the Samajwadi Party turned it into a stronghold of terrorism.

All the credit of development in India goes to PM Modi.

Mother Teresa was part of a conspiracy to convert Hindus to Christianity.

I will face the challenges of U.P. We will make U.P. an ideal state. People of the state and the Government of India are fully cooperating with me. U.P. will be an example for India.

In a democracy, everyone has a right to put forward one’s views. But people resorting to violent demonstrations in the name of Dalits are bound to be exposed.

Officers are not fruit. I can’t pick them off a tree.

Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country.

I think there is no difference between the language of Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed.

We have demolished the biggest hindrance to the development of Uttar Pradesh – the menace of casteism and dynastic politics. The epicentre of development is now villages, poor, farmers, youth, women, traders, and, in fact, every section of the society.

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

We want to channelize the youth so that the state benefits from them and help Uttar Pradesh become a developed state.

Public sentiment should be respected.

I am not a full-time politician but a ‘sanyasi’ who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

Most days, I am the rain. – And that’s okay.

Sometimes I don’t like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I’m healthy now.

The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”

Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.