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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
Manmohan Singh
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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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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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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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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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China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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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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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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Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.
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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.
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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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China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
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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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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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