Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. ”

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country. ”

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ”

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. ”

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination. ”

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money. ”

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression! ”

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how? ”

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all. ”

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys. ”