Ours is a multi-religious country, a multi-lingual country; we have many different modes of worship. We believe in peaceful and harmonious co-existence.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.

As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.

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

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

For development, peace is essential.

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

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

People want government to deliver – here and now.

India has never played politics with national security.

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.

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