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Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

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.

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

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.

Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Today's meeting was extremely important and brought exceptional results, ... The talks have shown that the long-term national and geopolitical interests of Russia and India coincide.

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

Today the world has to accept what India has been saying about terrorism. India's dialogue on terrorism, the losses India has suffered due to terrorism, the losses suffered by humanity, the world is now acknowledging that.

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

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

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.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

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

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.

Until we resolve to stand up & walk, we won't find people to show us directions...I am confident that 125 crore Indians are capable to walk and will keep walking always.

Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

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

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

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