We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.