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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.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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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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I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.
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I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.
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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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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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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.
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Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.
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