If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.