Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes
"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
(Related: Perception, Purpose, Countries, Country)
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Change, Friends)
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Hope, Act, Self, Spirit, Will, World)
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Conviction)
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Reality)
"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
(Related: Health, Money, Education, Care, Culture, Participation, Poverty)
"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
(Related: People, Will, Years)
"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Countries, Disasters, Today)
"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Adventure, Weapons)
"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
(Related: Partnership, State, Terror, Terrorism)
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: War)
"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
(Related: Community, End, Influence, Play, Rest, states, Terrorism, United)
"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Benefits, Poor, World)