Khurshid Quotes & Sayings

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention. — Salman Khurshid

That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them. — L.M. Montgomery

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment. — Salman Khurshid

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union. — Salman Khurshid

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them. — Bhikkhu Analayo

India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the Gulf region and that of the Indian subcontinent are interlinked. Bilateral security cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia will contribute to regional stability and in addressing the common threat of terrorism in the region. — Salman Khurshid

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country ... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control. — Salman Khurshid

What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders ... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young ... 11 ... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill. — Salman Khurshid

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons. — Salman Khurshid

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. — Ferdinand Marcos

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so. — Salman Khurshid

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture. — Salman Khurshid

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere. — Salman Khurshid

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people. — Salman Khurshid

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within. — Salman Khurshid

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers

I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh ... It is a very small amount for a central minister. — Beni Prasad Verma

Everybody makes his own god(s). — Ludwig Feuerbach

We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises. — Salman Khurshid

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body. — Salman Khurshid

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am — Kanye West

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. — Ruth Rendell

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways. — Salman Khurshid

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one. — Salman Khurshid

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface. — Salman Khurshid

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners. — Salman Khurshid

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India. — Salman Khurshid

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely. — Salman Khurshid