Kiran Bedi

“My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired.”

“When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.”

“The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.”

“When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.”

“The Draft Model Police Act of 2006, as part of police reforms, provided for Special Security Zones to be created in the red corridor, which is a common development area. That means bringing together diverse political components but working through a coordinated bureaucracy.”

“Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.”

“The media has a key role to play in ending corruption.”

“Every challenge has its own unique problems.”

“I am a Gemini. We have split personalities. While at work, I am fully in it. I can be attached yet very detached. I have no feelings of remorse.”

“I do not believe in living in either the future or the past.”

“If I could, I would never walk. I would just jog or, even better, run.”

“I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.”

“The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.”

“Crime prevention has to become a first priority.”

“You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'”

“I haven't seen a single institution in the corporate world operating smoothly without a HR team.”

“Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.”

“Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.”

“My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.”

“I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.”