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.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Democracies don't go to war.