They said it in April
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They said it in April”If I go to my district, I cannot talk globalisation to people. Their worry is about getting their children to school, about health care and power‚¦ Let‚s ensure that globalisation reaches the 300 million people who live on less than a dollar per day.” — Kamal Nath, Union minister for commerce and industry at the India Today Conclave in Delhi (April 9)”You know that when my family decides to do anything, it does it. Be it the freedom struggle, the division of Pakistan or taking India to the 21st century.” — Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh (April 15)”You have vandalised my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ to inspire generations of the weak, the defenceless people.” — Virginia Tech students killer Cho Seung-Hui in a videotape telecast on NBC News Network (April 18)”I wanted the time. I wanted to learn to write, and I began to write in my fifth year away from Trinidad. Oxford didn‚t teach me anything, nothing at all.” — Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul in The Trinidad Guardian (April 19)”HIV/AIDS and sex education in schools is not related at all. UNESCO‚s efforts in spreading awareness through sex education at the primary school level does not hold good at all in India.” — D.H. Shankaramurthy, Karnataka‚s higher education minister in Times of India (April 21)”Even though GDP growth indicates our economic growth, people‚s participation is essential for achieving the required targets. It is essential to ensure that citizens are empowered with good quality of life encompassing nutritious food, good habitat, clean environment, affordable healthcare, quality education and productive employment.” — President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressing the European Parliament (April 25)”Global democracy has a special problem ‚ the scale on which it must operate. The bigger the electorate the less democratic a parliamentary body will be.” — George Monbiot in The Guardian (April 27) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp