Words matter. These are the best Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.
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.
Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation’s S&T strategy.
I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong – in every sense of the term.
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
For the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhian socialism is what we want to achieve and make society free of exploitation and full of opportunities.
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
The prime minister’s office is not something that one enjoys.
Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
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.
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!
For development, peace is essential.
Labour reforms are not anti-worker.
The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.
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.
Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
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.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.
India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
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 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?
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.
We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.
Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.
In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don’t want to live in harmony.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor.
