"Going to Harvard means nothing. What matters is hard work....A man who has just studied in an ordinary school, sold tea and has not even seen the doors of Harvard has shown what it takes to handle economy.

"Gujarat has shown an average growth of 10.1 percent for the last ten years while the national average has been 7.6 under UPA and it has fallen to 4.5 in the last two years,"

"The Recount Minister has been using foul language against me for quite sometime now. I have been maintaining silence because the more mud you throw, lotus will blossom all the more,"

"He behaves as if he was the first in the queue when God was distributing intelligence,"

Narendra Modi Saturday on Finance Minister P Chidambaram addressing a Public Meeting at Vandalur near Chennai