My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.
Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.
I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.
To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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.
I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.
I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.
Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.
Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.