NEW Delh: Highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day speech:
* Without understanding and restraint, our security and integrity can get adversely affected.
* Some people who want to create disturbances in the country so that our progress gets stalled.
* This is the time "to rise above our personal or political interests and build consensus on issues of national importance".
* We have provided political stability and socio and economic progress.
* We have established an environment of communal harmony in the country.
* His seven years have seen rapid economic development.
* We have taken special care of the needs of our brothers and sisters from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, minorities, women and children.
* Promises food security legislation soon.
* The country is full of "confidence and self-respect".
* Corruption is a big obstacle in national transformation.
* Corruption should be discussed in a manner that "should not create an atmosphere in which country's progress comes into question".
* The government is taking strictest possible action in cases of corruption.
* There is no single big step which we can take to eradicate corruption.
* Corruption cannot be eradicated unless "we improve our justice delivery system".
* Want strong Lokpal to prevent corruption in high places.
* Hunger strikes and fast-unto-death will not help.
* Without understanding and restraint, our security and integrity can get adversely affected.
* Some people who want to create disturbances in the country so that our progress gets stalled.
* This is the time "to rise above our personal or political interests and build consensus on issues of national importance".
* We have provided political stability and socio and economic progress.
* We have established an environment of communal harmony in the country.
* His seven years have seen rapid economic development.
* We have taken special care of the needs of our brothers and sisters from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, minorities, women and children.
* Promises food security legislation soon.
* The country is full of "confidence and self-respect".
* Corruption is a big obstacle in national transformation.
* Corruption should be discussed in a manner that "should not create an atmosphere in which country's progress comes into question".
* The government is taking strictest possible action in cases of corruption.
* There is no single big step which we can take to eradicate corruption.
* Corruption cannot be eradicated unless "we improve our justice delivery system".
* Want strong Lokpal to prevent corruption in high places.
* Hunger strikes and fast-unto-death will not help.