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	August 07, 2000

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"Don't you always fatten your cow before you take it to marketplace for selling it?"
-Sharad Yadav, Union civil aviation minister, explaining that there was no contradiction in the Government's decision to acquire new aircraft for Indian Airlines even as it was disinvesting in the carrier

"This is my government. If a section behaves in a way which is not good, I have to raise it."
-Jaya Jaitly, Samata Party president, accusing Union ministers Dhananjay Kumar and S.S. Dhindsa of trying to influence the probe into cricketer Ajay Jadeja's assets

"I am in the habit of going to the toilet three times a day. If they have only western-style toilets, I am not going to jail."
-Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, explaining why he had threatened violence if he was ever sent to jail

"Yes, there were dark moments when I wondered whether it was worth living. I'd think I have fallen so far. "
-Hansie Cronje, former South African cricket captain, admitting he contemplated suicide after revelations that he fixed matches

"Why are only unauthorized colonies being regularised? Why not the jhuggis?"
-V.P. Singh, Former prime minister

"Jagmohan knows what he is doing and is not like those who go to the jhuggi jhonpris and sit on a dharna."
-Chandra Shekhar, Former prime minister

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