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Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.

— Tulsi Gabbard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

— Tulsi Gabbard

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

— Ami Bera

Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.

— Amitabh Bachchan

I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

— Karan Mahajan

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

— Narendra Modi

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

— Narendra Modi

India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.

— Bernhard Goetz

✗Opposing Perspectives

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

— Narendra Modi

Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

— Russell Means