Manmohan Singh

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

— Manmohan Singh

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

— Manmohan Singh

Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.

— Manmohan Singh

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise

— Manmohan Singh

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

— Manmohan Singh

The future is inherently uncertain.

— Manmohan Singh

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow…

— Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

— Manmohan Singh

So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure…

— Manmohan Singh

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to…

— Manmohan Singh

Indians, we would like to be a part of the nuclear world order, accepting all the responsibilities that go with being a…

— Manmohan Singh

China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the…

— Manmohan Singh

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

— Manmohan Singh

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for…

— Manmohan Singh

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

— Manmohan Singh

“A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams",so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!”

— Manmohan Singh

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive…

— Manmohan Singh

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

— Manmohan Singh

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

— Manmohan Singh

We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture…

— Manmohan Singh

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons…

— Manmohan Singh

I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once…

— Manmohan Singh

I'm a small person put in this big chair.

— Manmohan Singh