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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. It’s the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

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

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

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

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

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

If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.

If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.

If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine there. At the headwaters of the rivers of India, they are pilgrimage places.

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that's what kept me going and got me through.

I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

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

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.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

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

I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.