Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes
We want peace to be permanent.
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari. "Address at Minar-e-Pakistan." 21 Feb. 1999, Lahore, Pakistan. Selected Speeches of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, vol. 1, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2000, p. 185.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, had:
This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
He was a realist who wanted to sue for peace before Germany was destroyed.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman who served three terms as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He was the first Indian prime minister not of the Indian National Congress to serve a full term in office. He was also noted as a poet and a writer.
