Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian statesman Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
We believe in equal respect for all faiths.
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.
India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.
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 reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.
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.
We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
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.
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.
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.
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!
The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?
We want peace to be permanent.
Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
Let no one challenge India's secularism.
Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
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.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
Ours is a multi-religious country, a multi-lingual country; we have many different modes of worship. We believe in peaceful and harmonious co-existence.
India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.
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.
For development, peace is essential.
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.
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.
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.
I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.
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.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
Though I stay in Delhi, I often think about Himachal.
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.
I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
You can change friends but not neighbours.
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
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.
If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
I prefer to die rather than eat beef.
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