The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

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?

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Beulah, peel me a grape

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.