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The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Personally I don’t think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India’s constitutional ills.

Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.