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" 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. "
Energy
Technology
Democracy
" During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement. "
School
Parents
Quit
" Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change. "
Growth
Nation
Best
" For development, peace is essential. "
Essential
Peace
Development
" I believe the gun is no solution to problems. "
Gun
Believe
Problems
" I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations. "
Great
Caring
Strong
" If India is not secular, then India is not India at all. "
Then
Secular
India
" I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. "
Fear
Vision
Want
" India has never played politics with national security. "
India
Never
Played
" Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics. "
Democracy
Politics
Strength
" Let no one challenge India's secularism. "
Challenge
India
Secularism
" 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.' "
Change
Friendship
Peace
" No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems. "
Problems
Guns
Brotherhood
" Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours. "
Sky
Aim
Minds
" 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. "
Men
Great
Excellence
" Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect. "
Creating
Achieve
Trying
" Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing. "
Effective
Diplomacy
Far
" Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity. "
Become
Terrorism
Humanity
" The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. "
India
Terrorism
Policy
" There can be no compromise regarding corruption. "
Regarding
Corruption
Compromise
" The spending in science and technology need to be to increased. "
Spending
Need
Science
" The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. "
Small
Unique
Purpose
" Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity. "
Life
Victory
Defeat
" 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. "
War
Precious
Unemployment
" We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine. "
Now
Hunger
Famine
" You can change friends but not neighbours. "
You
Neighbours
Friends
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