Shashi Tharoor Quotes

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship.

I have come here, therefore, on a voyage of discovery of the mind and heart of America and to place before you our own heart. Thus we may promote that understanding and cooperation which, I feel sure, both our countries earnestly desire.

Cultivate the company and friendship of people outside your community, and come to know them as well as your own. The understanding and appreciation that develop from such social contacts is the best way of removing inter-state differences, and makes life richer and more interesting.

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone.

It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

You want to be with someone who you are constantly learning from, but you also feel like you give back to.