Palaniappan Chidambaram Quotes

I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

- Palaniappan Chidambaram