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.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.

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