Anbumani Ramadoss

We will teach people to fish, rather than provide them fish. We will bring schemes that will create jobs.

Anbumani Ramadoss (born 9 October 1968) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu belonging to the Pattali Makkal Katchi party. He served as the Health Minister of India from 2004 to 2009.

Quotes

• India will be another Africa, if left to itself.
  • At the launch of an AIDS control campaign, as quoted in "'AIDS threat can make India another Africa'", Rediff (18 October 2005)

• In our country, we do sex. But we don't want to talk about it and that is why we have a billion population.
  • On the protests against sex education in India, as quoted in "The great Indian sex debate", BBC News (20 August 2007)

• I don't care who is with me. I want this ban to be implemented because as a doctor I believe that more than any medium, films influence impressionable minds.
  • After banning portrayal of smoking in films, as quoted in "Statutory warning", India Today (10 October 2005)

• Section 377 of IPC, which criminalizes men who have sex with men, must go.
  • On a law that criminalise homosexuality in India, as quoted in "Legalise homosexuality: Ramadoss", The Times of India (9 August 2008)

• We definitely condemn the incident where women were attacked, but the pub culture must stop. It is because of this that youth in the country have taken to drinking in a big way.
  • On the 2009 Mangalore pub attack, as quoted in "Pub culture against Indian ethos, must stop: Ramadoss", The Times of India (30 January 2009)

• We will teach people to fish, rather than provide them fish. We will bring schemes that will create jobs.
  • Announcing his candidature for the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, as quoted in "Anbumani projects himself as CM candidates, seeks vote for change", The Times of India (13 July 2015)