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Democracies don't go to war.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
Banker
Civil Servant
Economist
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Prime Minister Of India
Democracies
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If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.
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Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.
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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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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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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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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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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
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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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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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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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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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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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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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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 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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Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.
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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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The United States and India can work together.
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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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