The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity.

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

I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets.

Skill development remains our priority. We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

I can say that China has been cooperating with India to search for solutions. On some issues, it's a question of principles for them. On some issues, it's a question of principles for us. On some issues they differ with us and there are issues on which we differ with them. There are some basic differences. But the most important thing is that we can speak to China eye-to-eye and put forth India's interests in the most unambiguous manner.