I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.

Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.