QUOTA of QUOTES
“It’s not something that I view as a pleasurable job. It’s not something that I have always aspired to in my whole life, but public service is about serving the public, right?”—Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, saying that he would consider running for Ohio governor in 2026. (NTD News)
“You can’t buy credibility. You have to earn it by being scrupulously honest, by working on your clients’ behalf, and by being concerned about their financial problems.”—New York Life agent Jaydev Patel, 82, considered the most successful agent in the company’s history and honored with a statue at the company’s home office and a conference center named after him. (India West)
“His response was incomprehensible at best; at worst, outrageously offensive to the millions of families drowning in costs.”—Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First and Girls Who Code, on Donald Trump’s focus on tariffs while responding to her question about childcare at the Economic Club of New York. (CNN)
“This fellowship is a celebration of the enormous contributions of Dalits—their ideas, actions, history, and fight for human rights—as much as it is of me as a Dalit woman scholar. I am indebted to the Dalit women who shared their lives with me and I hope this achievement will strengthen the fight of both Dalits and non-Dalits against caste discrimination, in and beyond South Asia.”—Shailaja Paik, University of Cincinnati professor, who was awarded a 2024 MacArthurfellowship, known as “the genius grant.” (NPR)
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Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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