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

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

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.

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

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 pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.