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Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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Prime Minister Of India
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No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.
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Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.
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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 the world's interests.
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We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
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Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.
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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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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.
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So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure that our systems of general education and technical education are in line with the job requirements that a more modern manufacturing and a more modern services sector would require.
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We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.
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The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.
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A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.
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I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.
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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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Democracies don't go to war.
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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 all right.
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The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.
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