The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. Thats the best kind there is, trust me.

I am not an original thinker&mdashbut I am an original listener.)

It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning re-election to their golden thrones in heaven year after year.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

But I complain about the police the way the rich complain not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

Let animals live like animals let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

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

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.

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

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.