Budget 2015: Top quotes by Jaitley

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with MoS Finance, Jayant Sinha, coming out of North Block office before presenting the Union Budget 2015-16, in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: V. Sudershan

1. With all humility I submit that this opportunity has risen because we have created it

2. All our schemes should focus off-centre on the poor

3. In terms of connectivity, rural-urban divide should no longer be acceptable to us

4. Reforms should move slowly but surely.

5 We have been consistent with what we are sayig and what we are doiung

6. We are a round-the-clock, round-the-year government

7. we have also embraced the States as equal partners in the process of economic growth

8. The credibility of the Indian economy has been re-established. The world is predicting that it is India’s chance to fly.

9. Even our worst critics would admit that we have moved rapidly.

10. We are committed, Madam Speaker, to achieving what we have been voted to power for: Change, growth, jobs and genuine, effective upliftment of the poor and the under-privileged.