Atal Bihari Vajpayee said this quote

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.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee