The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

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

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.

I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.