Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

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

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.