Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

India has always wanted friendly ties with its neighbours, there can be no debate around it. We want to live in harmony and peace.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

I don't think I will ever make my all-time greatest India team. You cannot compare one era with another, as they will be different.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

'Mr. India' was a turning point. Before that, Hindi moviegoers saw me just as a glamour girl. After 'Mr. India,' they felt I could act.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

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