Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide what kind of India we want to create. So Vote for India. Neither for a person, nor for a party, let us Vote for India.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.