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

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.

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!

Let no one challenge India’s secularism.

Population needs to be stabilized for sustainable development.

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

You can change friends but not neighbors.

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honor in the comity of great nations