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

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

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

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.