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Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
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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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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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Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.
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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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We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.
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I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.
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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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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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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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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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I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.
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The United States and India can work together.
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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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I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.
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I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
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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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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
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