Manmohan Singh Thinking Quotations

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.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.

I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.

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.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

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.

I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.

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

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.

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

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power, and I think it's legitimate, and I don't see that's a danger to us.

There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.

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.

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

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

I do believe that India is a unique case, and you need, I think, exceptional skills, I think, to incorporate India into the world nuclear order.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

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

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

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.