Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

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

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.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.