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.

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.

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single rule or regulation. We create new rules every two minutes and then dump them. Nobody knows the rules in the party

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources