QUOTA of QUOTES
“As a father, I empathize with President Biden, but we must be the party of reform, whether it’s about the archaic pardon power, opposing super PACs, or broad war powers.”— Congressman Ro Khanna, expressing on social media his disappointment with President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden.
“My courage to join the military would have been much stronger if I had seen myself in the stories of service members flying the aircraft I spent my life reading about.”—Dr. Ravi I. Chaudhary, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations, and Environment, on the legacy of Indian American actor and World War II hero Sgt. Sabu Dastagir. A portrait of Dastagir was unveiled during a recent ceremony in the Pentagon’s World War II hallway
“We are going to continue to see a shift in our demographic— and how we ensure that [it] is not a point of division, but that we are really becoming a place that is inclusive and accepting and welcoming of everybody and creating a new vision for how we operate as a true community moving forward.”— Danny Avula, an India-born pediatrician, reflecting on the significance of his election as the first immigrant mayor of Richmond, Virginia. (WRIC)
“I love working in a way as if I’m making films on my kitchen table, just stitching together seemingly unrelated forms, ideas, texts, and music in a very organic way.”—Director Payal Kapadia, whose film All We Imagine as Light received two Golden Globe nominations. (Slant magazine)
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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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