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April 10, 2026
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"You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name 'PADDY'. Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal."
"I'm a problem solver, with a heart of gold."
"Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised."
"Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are."
"Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due."
"We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money."
"I put a thief in my mouth to steal my brain."
"Nobody going on a business trip would have been missed if he never arrived."
"Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes."
"Who in this world is what they seem to be? Who?"
"You never know who anybody is, except me. I am who I am."
"Mr. Klein: If we all do our jobs, we will each be rewarded according to our just desserts."
"FBI Team Leader: It's an interesting setup, Mr. Ross. It is the oldest confidence game on the books. The Spanish Prisoner. Fellow says him and his sister, wealthy refugees, left a fortune in the home country. He got out, girl and the money stuck in Spain. Here is her most beautiful portrait. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. Man who supplies the money gets the fortune and the girl. Oldest con in the world."
"Can you really trust anyone?"
"It's the oldest con in the book."
"Campbell Scott - Joe Ross"
"Steve Martin - Julian "Jimmy" Dell"
"Rebecca Pidgeon - Susan Ricci"
"Ben Gazzara - Mr. Klein"
"Ricky Jay - George Lang"
"Felicity Huffman - FBI Agent McCune"
"Ed O'Neill - FBI Team Leader"
"Takeo Matsushita - U.S. Marshal"
"Keiko Seiko - U.S. Marshal"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.