Absent Quote by Kofi Annan

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion…

— Pratibha Patil

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will…

— Pranab Mukherjee

The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future.

— Narendra Modi

If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations.…

— Pankaj Mishra

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support…

— Raghuram Rajan

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

— Narendra Modi

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

— C. N. Annadurai

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world…

— Alex Steffen

We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They…

— Kofi Annan

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

— Manmohan Singh

If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution…

— John Bolton

India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent.

— Kabir Bedi