Acceptance Quote by Shashi Tharoor

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going…

— Al Gore

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens…

— Satyajit Das

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly the least…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the…

— Peter Blair Henry

Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health - they are the things that should be the object of…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who are left…

— Angus Deaton

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

— Todd Young

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they…

— Michael Spence