In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.