Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

- Jairam Ramesh

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

- Jairam Ramesh

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for m…

- Jairam Ramesh

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

- Jairam Ramesh

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India tha…

- Jairam Ramesh

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to …

- Jairam Ramesh

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

- Jairam Ramesh

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

- Jairam Ramesh

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import subst…

- Jairam Ramesh