Manmohan Singh
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Country
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.Collection: Moving
[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.Collection: Urbanization
I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.Collection: India
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.Collection: Technology
China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.Collection: Country
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.Collection: Democracy
India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.Collection: Believe
The United States and India can work together.Collection: Working Together
India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.Collection: Believe
A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting all fundamental human freedoms great respect for pluralistic, inclusive value system. I think that's what unites India and the United States. And I do hope that working together, our two countries can write a new chapter in the history of our relationship.Collection: Country
Democracies don't go to war.Collection: War
Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.Collection: Country
India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.Collection: Thinking
All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessaryCollection: Taken
India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.Collection: America
I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.Collection: Tasks
I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.Collection: Thinking
There was a research I think team, which conducted a survey about what Indians think of Americans, and 71 percent I believe said, well, I think all the nice things about our working together with the United States. But there are people I think that are old mind-sets, who still I think remain mired in the Cold War ideology.Collection: War
I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.Collection: United States
I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.Collection: Believe
Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.Collection: Ties
What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.Collection: Civilization
Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down- Brett Lee tells you why one must never sledge Sachin Tendulkar It is an amazing achievement to play for the country for over two decades and still continue to be the team's anchor. Sachin makes all of us so very proudCollection: Country
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.Collection: Jobs
I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society, political system, an open economy, economic system - this has widespread support.Collection: Lying
India has remained a full, functioning democracy.Collection: Democracy
I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.Collection: Thinking
In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.Collection: Country
The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.Collection: Technology
I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.Collection: People
Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.Collection: Children
In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.Collection: Cutting
I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.Collection: Commitment
I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.Collection: Gratitude
The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.Collection: Mean
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.Collection: Safety
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.Collection: Zero
I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.Collection: People
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.Collection: Moving
I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.Collection: Thinking
Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.Collection: Surprise
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.Collection: Japan
The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.Collection: Essence
I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.Collection: Motivational