I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

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

I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.