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 are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

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

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.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

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

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.