I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

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.