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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

From Manmohan Singh

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

From Manmohan Singh

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

From Manmohan Singh

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.

From Manmohan Singh

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

From Manmohan Singh

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

From Manmohan Singh

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

From Manmohan Singh

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

From Manmohan Singh

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

From Manmohan Singh

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

From Manmohan Singh

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