I'm a small person put in this big chair.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

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

There may be a difference of the pace at which India moves, but there should be no doubt whatsoever about the direction in which India is going to move in years to come.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

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

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