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

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

Democracy is good for everybody.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.