Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy..

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivit….

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests..

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two….

There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, bot….

We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast ….

If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promotin….

Democracy is good for world peace..

India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule o….

When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high….

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me..

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern..

I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many ot….

I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order..

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more….

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away..