I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.