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.

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

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.

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

I’m a Bangalore boy.

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

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.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

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.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

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.

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

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

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.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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.

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

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

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

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

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

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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

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

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

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.

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

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

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.

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

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

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.