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

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.
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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 they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.
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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
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My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.
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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 fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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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 an expanding economy.
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.
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In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.
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