Top 40 J. Jayalalithaa Quotes

The DMK is interested only in the welfare of a single family.

Opposition parties which have no concern for the welfare of Tamil Nadu or its people have been carrying out a campaign of lies. Their only aim is to criticise AIADMK which has the people’s support.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

I think Aishwarya Rai would be very suitable to play me in my younger days.

What I am saying is that I have the numbers to replace the 18 DMK MPs. I mean what I say.

The Congress wants to ensure that it has the number to stay in power at the Centre.

Do not waste your vote by voting for other parties – they will not form the government – as it will only split the votes, but vote for AIADMK which is going to be part of the Central government.

The DMK has been unable to defeat me.

People voted because of the trust they had in me, but Rangasamy betrayed us.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

The Indian government is weak. The Prime Minister is weak and ineffective.

We all change with time. Unless there is a change, there will not be any growth. So an individual must grow with time.

I don’t think I ever went away. I have been very much here and the people of Tamil Nadu realise that the state can progress only if I’m there.

It is a shame and the moral bankruptcy of the Congress that its leaders, who were at the forefront of the freedom struggle and fought against foreigners, should think of having a foreigner as the Prime Minister.

I requested people to strengthen my hands with a view to ensuring justice for Tamil Nadu and its due rights.

Let me clarify to you, I am not team B for BJP. We are always team A, the winning team.

I think we are destined to live with coalition governments in the future.

When you are a leader you learn to control your emotions, you learn to keep them in control.

Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest.

Having the reins of governance, power and political influence within one family will shatter the idea of equal opportunity to all, which is the basic concept of democracy.

I request people of Tamil Nadu to vote for AIADMK in Thanjavur, Aravakurichi, Thiruparankundram and in Pondicherry. Though I’m unable do the campaigning in-person. My heart is there.

DMK’s arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

Tough action is being taken on criminals involved in robbery, kidnapping and other related crimes.

The media is biased against me because I’m a self-made woman.

As far as I know, Kamala Haasan does not choose the prime minister of this country.

If Sivaji Ganesan was Nadigar Thilagam, Manorama was Nadigai Thilagam.

In 2006, the DMK gave television sets worth Rs 2,000, but collected Rs 3,000 for cable connection from each household. By this, the DMK leaders have earned Rs 25,000 crore of income.

I am really a behind the scenes person.

The media picks on me because I don’t have a family background like other female leaders of South Asia. Look at Indira Gandhi, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina. They were all someone‘s daughter or wife. I have no such background.

I keep my emotions to myself. I have never lost my temper in public, I have never wept in public.

When I started out, I was very shy, I was terrified of meeting strangers and I hated the lime-light.

Poor people have to pay high rents to marriage halls for conducting functions like wedding. Therefore, to benefit them, I have directed constructing ‘Amma Marriage Halls.’

AIADMK is committed to supporting an Indian for the Prime Minister’s post.

I would like to clarify that I am not on Twitter and as such the tweeting purportedly done in my name is by an imposter or impersonator.

I am for people, and because of people.

Politics can do without women. And they tried really hard to make it happen without women.

I recall with sorrow the demise of 233 party cadres who lost their lives after the special court delivered its verdict on my sentence.

Family rule is out and out against democracy.

Nowadays most men I meet are terrified of me.

I don’t think any party is capable of getting a single majority on its own.