“I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but I have got an opportunity to live for the country.”

Unity in diversity is India’s strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

A teacher says “I am sowing the seeds of revolution.” At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow.

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.

Brand India’ is built of 5 Ts – talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.

I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

Innovation no longer remains a choice but has become an imperative.

The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.

Don’t dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don’t have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.