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A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.
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If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.
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With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.
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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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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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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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I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.
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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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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.
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Life is never free of contradictions
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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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Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.
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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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Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
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I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.
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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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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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