If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

No guns but only brotherhood can solve the problems.

Truth can't be hidden for fear that somebody would exploit you.

India is not a piece of land but a living entity.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.