Subramanian Swamy Quotes

Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder and it should not have been done.

Income tax must be abolished. We must also increase the Fixed Deposit interest rates.

If the Pakistan prime minister thinks he can threaten us with war, let him know that 98 crore Indians are ready for it.

He (President Obama) should mind his own business. Two million Hindus who are working there (in the US) are not allowed to build their temples; they are not allowed to celebrate Diwali. He only gives lectures here. He says in America they have worked out a harmony. In America, the majority was brutalising the minority. In India, for 800 years, the Islamic minority was brutalising the majority Hindus.

Fanatic Muslims consider Hindu-dominated India an unfinished chapter of Islamic conquests.

I'm in politics because I want to be the prime minister some day. At 41, I'm old enough to run the country, though young enough to wait.

This family is totally anti-national as far as India is concerned. (but) I must tell you this much: Rajiv Gandhi and I were very, very close friends, extremely close friends. In Parliament when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister, he used to sit next to me along the aisle. After he lost office, he and I used to meet at 2 am everyday for two hours. So I know almost everything about the circumstances in which he got married, and what the relationship between the two (Rajiv and Sonia) was. I thought well of Rajiv. He was a great patriot, thought he would make a great Prime Minister if he came back for the second time around, and I supported him. Openly, on the floor of Parliament, I said, he didn’t get the Bofors money, Ottavio Quattrocchi (Sonia’s close friend) got it, and these were proved quite later, too late.

There is a need to make public the Operation Bluestar files so that people know the whole truth.

Once, at a get together, I called him my guru and explained the gurukul system of our rishis. He said: "Ah! That is what the US needs." Samuelson was a rishi in the way he treated his chosen students and saw them through difficulties. He was a great and gentle guru.

The operation Blue Star was supported by the BJP.

The main problem is his (Narendra Modi) extraordinarily unhealthy centralization of decision making. And the utter disregard that party president (Amit Shah) has for the workers.

If Bangladesh does not agree to take back its people, then the country should compensate by giving land to India.

The CAA is a commitment that we have to fulfil.

We Hindus offer Lord Krishna's package to Muslims--give us 3 temples and keep 39,997 masjids. I hope Muslim leaders don't become Duryodhans.

This is not a Modi wave, but a Hindutva wave. Hindus are rising above caste. The younger generation of voters is very important. They are young nationalists. They don’t care about caste.