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Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

For the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhian socialism is what we want to achieve and make society free of exploitation and full of opportunities.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

India has never played politics with national security.

People want government to deliver – here and now.

My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.

For development, peace is essential.

I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.