Actor and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan, who is currently touring US, delivered an address at a Jana Sena Party event in Nashua. Here are a few highlights of the speech:

"I was never interested in politics. To me, what has always been of interest is analyzing how the society functions. I am not highly educated. I am a school drop-out, but my learning has never stopped. I am still a student."

"Being in politics is a natural progression as far as I am concerned. Dancing with heroines, saying dialogues looks awkward for me. But you tell me to fight for the people, I will feel good about it." Pawan said that he values cinema because it's with the image he has got by being an actor that gives him an opportunity to raise question for the people.

"Merely entertaining you doesn't give me satisfaction. Unless I come out and address the issues people are facing, I won't derive satisfaction."

"This (the red cloth) is not the symbol of 'Gabbar Singh'. It's the common man's symbol. It's the symbol of Indians. It's the symbol of the hard working."

"When he was an Ambassador in US, Nani Palkhiwala spoke about how Indians contribute to the countries where they are living. India, he said, gives greatest human resources."

"India teaches us to see divinity in every being. When I was a child, I used to I used to observe my mother praying silently as soon as she switched the lights on. Wondering why, I asked her why she was doing it. She said that she was thanking Thomas Alva Edison, without whose invention, the world would still be in darkness. These are the kind of values that the average Indian mother teaches her kids."

"Jana Sena is a people's army. It doesn't have guns, its courage is its weapon. They say, 'Dhairye sahase lakshmi'. When you have courage, everything follows. Wealth and prosperity follows. I always prefer to have courage."