India Quotes

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

~ Manmohan Singh

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

~ Richard Cobden

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

~ Aravind Adiga

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

~ Rahul Gandhi

India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

~ Li Keqiang

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

~ Dhirubhai Ambani

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

~ Richard Cobden

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

~ Taslima Nasrin

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

~ Aravind Adiga

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

~ Vijay Mallya