In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

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

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.