India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

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.

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

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

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

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

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

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.

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.

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 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.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

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

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.

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

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

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

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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.

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

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

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

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.

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

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

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

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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 India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

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.

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.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

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

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

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

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.

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.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

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

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

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.

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

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

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

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

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

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.