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India Quotes by Manmohan Singh

57 India quotes by Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh notes that India is a country of wealth and poverty, with many poor people living in a rich nation. He says India must modernize its infrastructure, expand it fast, and partner with nations like the United States to grow the economy and lift people out of poverty.

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I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

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India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

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India's political system also would need to be modernized.

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The United States and India can work together.

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I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

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What India needs most is a unified food law.

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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

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I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be…

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One can dismiss the Prime Minister of India most easily. All that is necessary is for Parliament to pass a vote of…

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I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United…

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India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

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If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the…

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I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

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Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in…

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I've always believed India is a country blessed by - of - blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

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When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there…

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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the…

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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can…

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Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and…

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I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society,…

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Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two…

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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very…

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I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way…

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I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to…

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If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will…

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There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a…

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A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting…

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I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened…

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The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my…

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India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and…

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Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

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Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of…

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There may be a difference of the pace at which India moves, but there should be no doubt whatsoever about the direction…

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I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

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I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

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Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market…

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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

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India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

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India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

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There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations find a…