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Delhi Shiv Sena chief Jai Bhagwan Goyal, who led the lumpens who trashed cinemas in the capital showing the film, `Fire', which focuses on the theme of lesbianism.
WHAT HE SAID:``I am 40-years-old and, personally, I have never come across a homosexual in my life.''
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``But then my mother never lets me out of the house. Maybe she is right. Look what happened when I managed to sneak out.''
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Bharatiya Janata Party president Kushabhau Thakre on the Government planning to have the controversial Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill passed during the winter session of Parliament.
WHAT HE SAID: ``Till yesterday, we were saying something and now our own Government is doing just the opposite.''
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``To make my point, just look at what we said in our party manifesto. Good governance and an able, stable Prime Minister!!''
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Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
WHAT HE SAID:``Thanks to movies, people have stopped believing that honest politicians exist.''
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``Movies are supposed to offer escapism, not reflect reality.''
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Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha after having said that the economy was in a state of ``disaster.''
WHAT HE SAID:``I worry about the fiscal deficit every day, every moment.''
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``Of course, that does not leave me with any time to do anything about it.''
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Commerce Minister Ramakrishna Hegde.
WHAT HE SAID:``Congressmen are lucky with onions. They should choose it as their symbol.''
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``And, our ruling coalition could collectively adopt the banana peel.''
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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalitha on why she was terminating the Tamil Nadu alliance with the MDMK, the PMK, the TRC and the BJP.
WHAT SHE SAID:``These parties have devised their own individual pathways, and I thought it would only sow the seeds of confusions if they continued to assert that they still belong to the AIADMK (alliance)."
WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE ADDED: ``After all, sowing the seeds of confusion, as I have proven my worth at it, should be my monopoly.''
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