Quotes from Amit Shah

Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.

The BJP, during its reign, has never misused Article 356.

After forming government in 2019, the BJP will undertake a nationwide identification of illegal infiltrators living in the country.

The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.

Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.

I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.

What is more important than your son? Still, we send our sons to fight at the borders of the nation. Similarly, for the sake of development of our country, we have to give away our land. Not an inch of land that the government will acquire will go into the hands of industrialists.

Those who slog with the intent to bring happiness to others will always be liked.

Except two or three parties, most parties are dependent on one family. I believe that only parties where internal democracy is alive can achieve the ideals of democracy.

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

Those who carry out anti-national activities should be put in jail.

Since young age, I am in politics.

So many people are alleging so many things without evidence against Modi. That itself is proof that he is not a dictator.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

It is better for a youth to earn living selling pakodas instead of being unemployed. Making pakodas is not shameful; what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar.

Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.

The Modi government's accountability towards the common man can be gauged from the fact that be it Indians trapped overseas, a helpless mother looking for a doctor for her ailing child in a train, or a housewife struggling to get a gas cylinder, help is just a tweet away, with no protocol or red tape intervening.

This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

National elections have to be fought on who can ensure better national security, who can give us a sound economic system... ensure financial discipline... And this work can only be done by Narendra Modi.

First, only a stable government can do good for the nation and deliver development. By stable government, I mean one with a full majority. Then, only a strong leader can resolve the problems of the people.

I have no desire to advise the Gandhi family.

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.