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

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.

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

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.

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

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.

Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.

As we talk with candor, 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.

India was secular even when Muslims hadn’t come here and Christians hadn’t set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination