Vajpayee Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's easier to live when there is no hope left. A strange sense of freedom ironically fills up the space where earlier hopes lived. — Madhu Vajpayee

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

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined. — Madhu Vajpayee

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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 — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

But Vajpayee was a realist. He had joined the BJP recognising that the party would never come to power during his lifetime. That did not matter so much to him. He had never been after power. Otherwise, he would have accepted Narasimha Rao's offer, made in 1993, to join the Congress. He was happy sitting in the opposition and sticking to his principles. — Vir Sanghvi

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. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Every individual is fighting his own war for survival against the system.And system is destroying the sanctity of an individual. — Madhu Vajpayee

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by your own system was enough to rob them of their will power to fight any disease. — Madhu Vajpayee

Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is eating our lives like termites, redemption from misery of poverty, redemption from the sins of our venal politicians. We need good governance and accountability. An individual has to fight for the things he rightfully deserves. People do not need crutches of any kind if the basic conditions of nation are conducive to their growth. It's ridiculous; people are first deprived of basic amenities, denied their dues and then offered carrots to benefit the vote bank politics. — Madhu Vajpayee

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

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

When you are angry with someone,at least you acknowledge that person's existence. But with indifference,you kill him by invalidating his very existence. — Madhu Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead. — Narendra Modi

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

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further. — Madhu Vajpayee

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. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You can change friends but not neighbours. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego. — Madhu Vajpayee

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Her face reflecting the color of her dress, she glowed even in her disappointment ... perhaps the way of her defiance to the fate. — Madhu Vajpayee

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, — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Freedom is incomplete without social justice. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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. — 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

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974? — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

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