Tariq Ali Quotes
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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India always inspires me.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
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We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
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I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
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I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.
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I'm sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
