All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality