Children have the right to grow up in a family with a father and mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity. Today marriage and the family are in crisis. We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.