Manmohan Singh Quotes

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.

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.

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

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

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

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

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.

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.

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

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

The United States and India can work together.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

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

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.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

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.

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.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

India's political system also would need to be modernized.

China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.

India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Democracy is good for everybody.

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.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

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 unnecessary

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams", so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!