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 to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for China. This is a legitimate ambition for India. And the challenge for the humanity is to evolve a world system in which the legitimate ambitions of both our countries can find constructive expression without threatening anybody else.

India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

Democracies don't go to war.