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• I don't want your blood. I want your vote. Give me votes.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray

• A lady who cannot even pronounce the name of our great leaders properly has no moral right to keep her feet on the soil of Maharashtra.
Bal Thackeray on Sonia Gandhi

• Who says a Ram Mandir cannot be a national monument? After all, is the Taj Mahal not a national monument?
BJP leader Pramod Mahajan

• We are told the Congress was founded by friends of the British in Calcutta. The party, in the golden jubilee year of our Independence, has come a full circle. I am simply appealing to our countrymen to be vigilant.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu

• It is unfortunate that a lot of our leaders are above 75 years of age, whereas two thirds of the voting population is less than 45 years of age, and as a result our leaders are not in tune with their thinking (the youth).
Congress Rajya Sabha member Margaret Alva

• I think I have served this nation in one capacity and it is much better to leave a legacy than to look for a job.
Prime Minister I K Gujral

• Today, I pledge to soothe you.
Omar Farooq, candidate for the Srinagar seat and son of J & K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah

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