India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

I use the word "emerging and middle powers" not because I like the word, but because that was the term I was given.

Maybe I should escape that category and rise higher than that.

After all, my self-concept of myself is: I am a 7,000-year-old civilizational powerhouse.

I would look around the world and say, okay, there are very few others that would qualify under that criteria.