In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.

There are things I cannot say.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.