More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.

Charan is very mature, and I see myself in him. He also gives equal importance to family, and as an actor, too, he does his job well.

One wants to entertain the audience till the end. Sometimes, the desire is never-dying, as ANR garu once said. The caveat is that one has to be watchful of public reception.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.