You can change friends but not neighbours.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.
I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.
India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.
Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.
I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
We want peace to be permanent.
I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.
There can be no compromise regarding corruption.
People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
Let no one challenge India's secularism.
As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Himachal is my second home.
I believe the gun is no solution to problems.
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.
During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement.
The BJP decides its own policies.
India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.
Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
For the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhian socialism is what we want to achieve and make society free of exploitation and full of opportunities.
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'
India has never played politics with national security.
Labour reforms are not anti-worker.
Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.
I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?
Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.
It is a matter of concern that science departments in India's vast university system have suffered greatly due to lack of investments, both material and in terms of faculty.
