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.

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.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

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.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.

I would go into the darkness with you, but you won't come into the light with me.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.