Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

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

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

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

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.