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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India just went 3 years with no cases of polio. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
