One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

Just be nice to other girls because as a force we are a whole lot stronger when we stick together.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.