The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.