Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Manmohan Singh - Page 3

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

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.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

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.

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.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

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.

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.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

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.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

Democracies don't go to war.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

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.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.