Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Life is never free of contradictions

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

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.