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We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget.

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing 707s to deliver them if we needed it, so I think we had a crude capability already at that time.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

We are today a nearly 100% banked country.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

We must build an agenda for speedy yet sustainable economic growth that is inclusive of all, is respectful of individuals, responsive to innovation and responsible towards the future generations.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

We need to make India capable, prosperous.

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!

We will unearth the talent from every part of India and give them a platform to make it big.

We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

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

What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

What the United States has done hasn't always been liked or popular. But if you look at some of the most populous places in the world - China, India - the United States is not only respected but, in fact, popular.