He thinks people around him are trying to make fun of him, but he's really just fighting with windmills.

他觉得周围的人都在取笑他，其实那只是庸人自扰罢了。

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He says what he thinks and he's very direct and that surprises a lot of people because they think of him as some kind of a rabble-rouser, which he can be.

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He thinks that's one reason people have had so much trouble with the agency's color-coded alert system.

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By the end of the decade, he thinks, people will be comparing India's prospects with those of China, its fellow population billionaire.

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