Quotes from Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Though I stay in Delhi, I often think about Himachal.

People want government to deliver - here and now.

For development, peace is essential.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians.

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

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.

As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

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.

If India is not secular, then India is not India at 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.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

My lord! Do not place me so high, That I cannot embrace Those who are not my own. - Never Place Me So High

To those who try to reach The throne of power Over mounds of dead bodies Of innocent children Old women Young men, I have a question: Did nothing bind them To those who died? - Power