You can change friends but not neighbours.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

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.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

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

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

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

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

For development, peace is essential.

For the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhian socialism is what we want to achieve and make society free of exploitation and full of opportunities.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

Himachal is my second home.

I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

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

I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

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

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?

If Pakistan had not accepted the demand to stop cross-border infiltration and the United States had not conveyed to us Pakistan's guarantee to do so, then nothing could have stopped a war.

If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians.

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

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.

It is a matter of concern that science departments in India's vast university system have suffered greatly due to lack of investments, both material and in terms of faculty.

It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.

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!

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

Let no one challenge India's secularism.

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.

My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.