“Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.”

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way… but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you… only knowledge.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India’s economic transformation.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

I haven’t done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

We know we must address climate change.

And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.