"This family is totally anti-national as far as India is concerned. I must tell you this much: Rajiv Gandhi and I were very, very close friends, extremely close friends. In Parliament when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister, he used to sit next to me along the aisle. After he lost office, he and I used to meet at 2 am everyday for two hours. So I know almost everything about the circumstances in which he got married, and what the relationship between the two was... I thought well of Rajiv. He was a great patriot, thought he would make a great Prime Minister if he came back for the second time around, and I supported him. Openly, on the floor of Parliament, he didn’t get the Bofors money, Quattrocchi got it, and these were proved quite later, too late."

“It has a very small life span. It is a party led by people committed to naxal ideology. They are not improving the society, but rather disrupting it.”

“National politics has become devalued today because of casteism, communalism and regionalism. A few seats from one state is enough to launch you nationally.”

“If Bangladesh does not agree to take back its people, then the country should compensate by giving land to India.”

“Once, at a get together, I called him my guru and explained the gurukul system of our rishis. He said: "Ah! That is what the US needs." Samuelson was a rishi in the way he treated his chosen students and saw them through difficulties. He was a great and gentle guru.”

“I feel that only those who have been oppressed by the society and have been forced to live a backward life should given reservations. If Muslims want to study, then should be given scholarships, good schools, But Muslims and Christians can't have reservation as they have ruled our country.”

“The US wants only 51 per cent adherence as against 100 per cent adherence demanded by Russia.”