Here are some of his top quotes:
1. The government will carry out land reforms for the benefit of farmers. We have been unfair to farmers for the last 60 years. I know about farmers' pain, I was born and raised among the poor.
2. People taunted us, asked 'when will you bring back black money'; they made noise to suppress the truth. After our Finance Minister's Budget speech, all jokes died... they knew we meant business.
3. Nobody was ready to touch coal scam case, our intention was clean, we made diamond out of coal:
4. You give up a gas subsidy and I will channel it to the poor and the needy, and that's how we shall save a household: PM
5. These days there are more cell phones than there are people, so there is future for mobile governance, e-governance and a digital India. We are giving importance to Digital India and moving to mobile governance.
6. The nation has seen a new Rail Budget, something very different from the past. For the first time we projected how railways would be promoted in the next 10 years.
7. We have four colours in our flag and we want four revolutions to take the nation forward. White revolution for milk, blue for seas, green for grains and saffron for energy
8. We consider states equal partners in India's progress. Irrespective of what party the state government is, all are equal for us. Government of India will support all states in areas of development.
9. Sometimes niyat (intention) is more powerful than niti (policy) - your niyat was not right, ours is right, so we are on the path of development.
10. From 14,000 crore, Karnataka will get almost Rs. 25,000 crore due to recommendations of the Finance Commission.
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