Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

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