Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

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.

I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.

Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

Indians, we would like to be a part of the nuclear world order, accepting all the responsibilities that go with being a responsible nuclear power, and at the same time enlarging our options with regard to energy security of our country.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.