<div>I think it would also, in many ways, impoverish the European Union”<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Nick Clegg</strong></span><strong>, deputy prime minister of the UK, on the consequences of the UK leaving the EU</strong><br /><br />“I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human”<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Rob Ford</strong></span><strong>, mayor of Toronto, in a television interview</strong><br /><span style="font-size: larger;"><strong><br />“First, they try to block you; second, they try to infiltrate you; and third, you win. I really think that’s <br />how it works. Because the power has shifted”</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Eric Schmidt</strong></span><strong>, executive chairman, Google, on Internet censorship, in a lecture at Johns Hopkins University</strong><br /><br />“A tea-seller is a better person than those who sell the country”<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Narendra Modi</strong></span><strong>, responding to a Samajwadi Party politician who derided him over his past as a tea vendor</strong><br /><br />“I don’t trust them and they don’t trust me”<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Hamid Karzai</strong></span><strong>, President of Afghanistan, at a political meet, referring to the US</strong><br /> </div><table width="200" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="8" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="200" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="200" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=a1a1c937-8d91-4219-8347-90af900fdc52&groupId=520986&t=1385371291328" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Ballmer (Bloomberg</span></span>)</td></tr></tbody></table><div>“Thank you for helping try to find me work”<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>Steve Ballmer</strong></span><strong>, the outgoing CEO of Microsoft, to a shareholder who asked him if he would want to become the secretary of information technology</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: larger;"><strong>“China is doing exascale and petascale computing. I am fighting with the government to invest money in computing”</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);"><strong>C.N.R. Rao</strong></span><strong>, Bharat Ratna awardee and eminent scientist</strong><br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 16-12-2013)</div>