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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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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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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.
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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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In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.
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If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.
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Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.
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The United States and India can work together.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.
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The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.
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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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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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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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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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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 important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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