We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.