If We Have Access To Nuclear Energy,

I Can Assure You We Are A Responsible Nuclear Power.

A New India Which Realizes Its Destiny In The Framework Of An Open Society, In The Framework Of An Open Economy, Respecting All Fundamental Human Freedoms Great Respect For Pluralistic, Inclusive Value System. I Think That's What Unites India And The United States. And I Do Hope That Working Together, Our Two Countries Can Write A New Chapter In The History Of Our Relationship.

When I Became Finance Minister In 1991, I Discovered That The Wealth Tax Rates Income - There Was Taxation On Wealth. It Was So Atrocious And So High That Actually Nobody Could Accumulate Money In An Honest Way. I Removed That Tax, And The Result Was That Indian Companies For The First Time Acquired An Incentive To Grow Big, To Grow Rich.

The First And Foremost Priority Is To Finish The Unfinished Task Which The Founding Fathers Of India Set Out For Us At The Time Of Our Independence: To Get Rid Of Chronic Poverty, Ignorance, And Disease, Which Have Afflicted Millions And Millions Of Our People.

We Got Government Off The Backs Of The People Of India, Particularly Off The Backs Of India's Entrepreneurs. We Introduced More Competition, Both Internal Competition And External Competition. We Simplified And Rationalized The Tax System. We Made Risk-taking Much More Attractive.