Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Profession : Statesman

Birth : December 25, 1924

The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We want peace to be permanent.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Himachal is my second home.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee