Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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.

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

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.