Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

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  Education, Money, Powerful

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

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  Justice, Social Justice, Social

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• I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

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  Vision, India, Want

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1999). “Decisive Days”

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• You can change friends but not neighbours.

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  Change, Bihar, Neighbour

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2000). “March 1998 to March 1999”

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• If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

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  Book, Particular, Solutions

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• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

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  Self, World, Bihar

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• India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Men

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• The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.

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  Giving, People, Needs

  "Celebration, introspection as India's billionth citizen is born". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

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  Travel, Adventure, Nuclear

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• Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

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  Journey, Progress, Together

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• We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

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  War, Believe, Nuclear

  "Ties with Muslim world rich and strong: Vajpayee". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.arabnews.com. September 5, 2009.

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• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

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  Country, Mean, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

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  Motivational, Tests, Permission

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• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

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  Abet, Bihar, Terrorism

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

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  Reality, Bihar, Institutions

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

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  Believe, Play, India And Pakistan

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, India And Pakistan, Use

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• People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

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  Years, India And Pakistan, People

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• 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.

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  Country, Unique, Perception

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

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  War, Victory, Pressure

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

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  War, Bihar, Cold

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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  Stronger, Would Be, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

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  Diversity, Benefits, World

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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