I have to acknowledge that my successor has been a more adept salesman, event manager and communicator than me. - Manmohan Singh

I can say in all humility that I have not used my public office to enrich myself, enrich my family or to enrich my friends.

There is no time to lose. Neither the Government nor the economy can live beyond its means year after year. The room for maneuver, to live on borrowed money or time, does not exist any more. Any further postponement of macroeconomic adjustment, long overdue, would mean that the balance of payments situation, now exceedingly difficult, would become unmanageable and inflation, already high, would exceed limits of tolerance.

The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid.