“Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.”

U.P. is a big state. I don’t have enough leadership experience for such a big state. I requested the party for two experienced associates to help me and work with me.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

If a person is too ‘satisfied’, then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, terror camps are being destroyed, which is breaking the back of terrorists and Pakistan.

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Most of the people who oppose idol worshipping belong to TMC.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

A victory for the BJP means a victory for prosperity and development.

I don’t have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party’s manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That’s why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers’ expense, must end.

I am not putting a check on anyone. I just have to say that India’s Constitution has given certain rights and freedom to people, but there are some limits, too.

My guide is the Modi government at the Centre. It’s my inspiration. I will follow that.

After Modi became the PM, development happened across the country.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

All’s love, yet all’s law.

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.