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"My dad would have kicked me in the crotch if I was where you are now, junior."
"Just what are you cut out for? Getting into car accidents? Chasing tail? Driving drunk? What do you think you are, a Kennedy? You're a Bush! Start acting like one! Can't even hold a job. We always worked for a living. It's damn time you joined the rest of us and decided just what it is you're gonna do with your life."
"You disappoint me, junior. You deeply disappoint me."
"I'll never get out of Poppy's shadow!"
"[On his father] This is my war, not his!"
"God bless us all, and may God continue to bless America."
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... you can't get fooled again."
"Whose job is it, to find these damn weapons?"
"I believe God wants me to be president. I can't explain it, but something's going to happen, and America's going to need me."
"[after U.S. troops invade Iraq] That's for everyone who doesn't think I won in 2000!"
"[repeated line] Just tell me what to do!"
"Iran is not Iraq and Iraq is not Iran. I know that."
"Want to know what I see, Mr. President? I see a world where, in about 25 years, America's reserves are gone. Done. Demand is up, 30-40%, and we have two oceans blocks us from the world's reserves. You think we're gonna have allies then?"
"The American people want revenge. They liked Afghanistan, they want more!"
"Josh Brolin - George W. Bush"
"Elizabeth Banks - Laura Bush"
"James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush"
"Richard Dreyfuss - Dick Cheney"
"Toby Jones - Karl Rove"
"Ellen Burstyn - Barbara Bush"
"Scott Glenn - Donald Rumsfeld"
"Jeffrey Wright - Colin Powell"
"Thandie Newton - Condoleezza Rice"
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.