Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

I will try to live up to expectations of people; will present report card to people in 2019.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.