A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

New markets could be created by rural potentials,

which could lead to rise in the employment.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India.

We have to invest in a big way,

and I am pushing that idea.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian,

but I finally starting liking it.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

For 2,500 years,

India has never invaded anybody.

Nations consist of people.

And with their effort,

a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

We must get rid of fossil fuels

by developing injection systems for automobiles,

which can run on bio fuel.

Rameswaram has,

since antiquity,

been an important pilgrimage destination.

I have met 18 million youth,

and each wants to be unique.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise...

almost all cases which were pending had a social

and economic bias.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made,

do the people in power think about the sacrifices

the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

When I took over as president,

I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it,

the more I realised that it does not prevent t

he president of India from giving the nation a vision.

So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and

in legislative assemblies;

everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Wherever I go,

as long as I get a hot vegetable dish,

I am okay.

If I am in Gujarat,

I have Gujarati food.

If it's Shillong,

it's northeastern.

English is necessary

as at present original works of science are in English.

I believe that in two decades times

original works of science will start coming out in our languages.

Then we can move over like the Japanese.

For me,

there are two types of people:

the young and the experienced.

We should remember that there are nations

which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements

through the nuclear power system.

The government, whether state or central, is elected.

That means we have a responsibility to elect

the right kind of leaders.

My hair grows and grows;

you cannot stop it

that fellow grows,

it grows wild.