Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.