Danh ngôn của Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Sứ mệnh: 4)

You can change friends but not neighbours.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
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 need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
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.
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
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.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
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!
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?
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.
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
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.
India has never played politics with national security.
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.