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The United States and India can work together.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 91
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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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 need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for China. This is a legitimate ambition for India. And the challenge for the humanity is to evolve a world system in which the legitimate ambitions of both our countries can find constructive expression without threatening anybody else.
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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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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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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 look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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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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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.
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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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If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.
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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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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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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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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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Democracies don't go to war.
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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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China's influence is bound to rise.
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