Manmohan Singh
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Believe
We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.Collection: Diversity
I'm a small person put in this big chair.Collection: Chairs
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behaviorCollection: Needs
I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.Collection: Thinking
Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.Collection: Meaningful
Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.Collection: Wealth
I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.Collection: Country
With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.Collection: Technology
India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Father
The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.Collection: Numbers
We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.Collection: Safety
Democracy is good for world peace.Collection: Democracy
Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.Collection: Men
I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.Collection: Believe
India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.Collection: Energy
We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.Collection: Jobs
If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.Collection: Country
My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.Collection: India And Pakistan
I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.Collection: Balance
Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.Collection: Usa
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.Collection: Country
India's political system also would need to be modernized.Collection: Political
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.Collection: Enough
I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Energy
Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.Collection: Opportunity
Democracy is good for everybody.Collection: Democracy
A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Hurt
There may be a difference of the pace at which India moves, but there should be no doubt whatsoever about the direction in which India is going to move in years to come.Collection: Moving
The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.Collection: Ideas
The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.Collection: Distance
Indians, we would like to be a part of the nuclear world order, accepting all the responsibilities that go with being a responsible nuclear power, and at the same time enlarging our options with regard to energy security of our country.Collection: Country
I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.Collection: India
I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: Daughter
I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.Collection: Believe
I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.Collection: Country
I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Lying
China's influence is bound to rise.Collection: Influence
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Jobs
There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.Collection: Country
China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.Collection: Growth