These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

I'm confident that it is with the strength of the poor that India will move forward.

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.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways...We need both Information Ways and Highways.

I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.