When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

The Department of Defense is a longtime partner of the Department of Homeland Security, and I thank them for their support.

Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.

The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.