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

What India needs most is a unified food law.

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

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

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