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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

I'm covered with loser dust.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.