Kapil Sibal Quotes
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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Public interest is a very unruly horse.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.