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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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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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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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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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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
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Democracies don't go to war.
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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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I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.
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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 all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations find a new robust phase of relationship, a multi-fasted relationship which I believe exists in the interests of both our countries.
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India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.
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I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.
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When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.
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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 coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.
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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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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
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