Sunday Thoughts

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.  

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.  

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.  

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.  

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.
For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.  

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.  

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.  

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.  

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.  

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.  

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.  

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.  

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing  

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.  

The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.  

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.  

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.  

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.  

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?  

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'