If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.

We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.

I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.