Arvind Kejriwal Quotes

Gandhiji used to say, ‘True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India.

andhere se ujaale ki taraf ka safar shuru ho gaya hai... More power to the people.

An entrepreneur is one who chooses to solve old problems in new ways.

The biggest problem of our country is not Harshad Mehta stealing ₹ 3000 crores. It is when an ordinary person pays 200 rupees as bribe – and thinks it’s okay.

The Rashtrapati Bhawan is a 340-acre house in the heart of Delhi. In the same city, 40 per cent people live in slums like insects.

If I tell you desh mein do hazaar crore ka ghotala ho gaya, it’s just a story. But if I tell you the kachcha road outside your house has been ‘made’ last year, as per municipal records, then your blood boils.

breath, but the hopes of the common man are being choked

One of the perils of not participating in politics is that you have to be ruled upon by people who are less deserving than you.

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One of Arvind Kejriwal’s many NGOs is generously funded by the Ford Foundation. Kiran Bedi’s NGO is funded by Coca-Cola and Lehman Brothers.

Kabir, run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, key figures in Team Anna, has received $400,000 from the Ford Foundation in the last three years.

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This is what Gandhiji talked about; that this country would be a federation of six lakh villages, every village a ‘republic’ unto itself.

CHANGEMAKERS A single person is all it takes to start a movement. While the world laments ‘what is’, the changemaker takes a small step towards making it as it should be.

10,000 hour rule’. The rule states that in order to do something extraordinary in any field – be it sports, or business, or science – you must put in 10,000 hours of passion and devotion. What’s more, you must do it selflessly.

You don’t have to register, actually, to do social work.

But the basic principle remains the same: a people’s movement built on participation – not money power.

The real issue is not corruption – that is only a symptom. What we need to work on is building democracy, in the real and honest sense of the term.

We have equated elections with democracy.