"The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House."

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."

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

"Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"