Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

We are always going somewhereelse

Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.

I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.