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Raghuram Rajan Quotes

Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: indian
Birth: February 3, 1963

Topics

Accountability Corrupt Empowered Must

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Progress Decisions Fence You Matter

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

Beautiful Mountain Game Rich Back

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Me Situation Circumstances Whatever

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.

Me Growing Up Limits America Someone

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Michael Arrington

Myself Transparency Standards Hold

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Modern Dictators Copied Saddam

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

Life Fear Morning Faith Face Loss

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

People Say Big Big Fan Fan Telling

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

Imagination Me Voice Perfect Know

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Learning Respect Past People Society

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Failure People Heaven Done Others

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Christina Ricci

Love Character You Fall Know Pilot

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