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.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

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.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

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

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

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

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

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

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

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

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.

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.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

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 is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.