Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
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.
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.