Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.