If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

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

Democracies don't go to war.

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

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.

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

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.