“People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.” — Abhijit Banerjee Quote

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him.

Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!

There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it's called Puerto Rico.