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Prime Minister of India

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India, serving since 2014. Born on September 17, 1950, in Vadnagar, Gujarat, he has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for 13 years prior to becoming Prime Minister. Known for his strong leadership and economic policies, Modi has implemented several initiatives aimed at improving infrastructure, attracting foreign investment, and promoting digital payments.

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“We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.”

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“If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.”

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“Terrorists are linked to money laundering, dirty money, drug dealing, arms trafficking. We have to ask ourselves, where do terrorists get their weapons from? Where do they get their communication technology from? Where do they get their financing from? These are some of the aspects where I think the entire international community needs to come together and put a complete stop to access to these three key aspects by the terrorists.”

“We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.”

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“Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.”

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“In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.”

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“We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide what kind of India we want to create. So Vote for India. Neither for a person, nor for a party, let us Vote for India.”

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“Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.”

Needs Hands Motivation Taken Progress Blood Streets Land Gun Tools Inspired Colour Pens Agriculture Youngsters Spilling

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“Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!”

Ifs Way Needs Motivation Passion Forget Poor Rich India Get Up Faith In Yourself Rich Or Poor

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“We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.”

Needs Years Lasts India Congress Governance Scams

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“We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government”

Want Needs Government Strong Development India Division Stable Governance Rise Above Pledge Castes Delhi Nepotism Strong Government

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“Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.”

Needs Development India Governance Mantras Kashmir Jammu Jammu And Kashmir

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“Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.”

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“We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.”

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“Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.”

Needs Problem Fighting Causes Hours Fire Solutions Roots India Management Crisis Ads Governance Root Cause Good Governance Crisis Management

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“Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.”

Needs Self Discipline India Self Discipline Governance Good Governance

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“Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.”

Needs Mind Long Use Term Technology India Aim Clean Climate Climate Change Active Long Term Etc Requirements Governance Short Term Preparedness Good Governance Fallouts

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“See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.”

Needs Action Politics Nations Talking Taken Records Rights India Tired Congress Track Backwards Track Record Keep Talking

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“Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.”

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“Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat”

Needs Effort Empowerment India Focused Developing Budgets Belts Gujarat

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“We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.”

People Men Needs Youth Planets Men And Women India

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“A youth is capable of bringing things together and changing the direction too. They can come together and bring changes. There is no need of breaking anything, but need is to bring changes.”

Needs Together Youth Capable India

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“We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.”

Way Needs Giving Ends Development Skills India Importance Unemployment Skills Development

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“Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.”

World Needs Fighting India Innovation Climate Climate Change Cooperation Will Power

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“We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.”

Needs Technology India Towns Embrace Digital Information Technology

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“A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.”

Needs Past Beautiful Effort Creating India Tourists Tourism

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“Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.”

“This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.”

World Needs Century Areas India Digital Pace Urban Linked Manufacturing Malls Virtual World Urban Areas Days To Come

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“Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.”

“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.”

Needs Poor Education Modern India Agents Humankind Poorest Catalyst Modern Science

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“Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.”

Thinking World Want Needs Children Education Environment Teacher Produce India Capability Linked Good Teacher Good Education

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“First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.”

Needs Firsts States Government Focus Achieve India Governance Competence

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“Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.”

Needs Made Two States Government Suffering Process Policy Citizens Weakness India Complexes Driven Flexible Governance Need A Change Simplification

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“We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.”

Needs Cutting India Governance Subsidies Leakage

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“Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.”

Needs Challenges Overcoming Accounts India Priorities Occasions Household Governance Bank Accounts

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“I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!”

People Needs Opportunity Energy Nations Building India Governance Nation Building

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“I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.”

Needs Dream Motivation Opportunity Skills India Entrepreneurship Hub

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“Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them.”

People Needs Said Country Today Motivation Space Century India Capability Ancestor Space Science

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“The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in 21st Century! India & Japan need to join hands to take the pride of Vikasvaad to greater heights.”

World Needs Hands Motivation Greater Century Pride India Height Streams Japan Divided 21st Century Indispensable Greater Heights

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“Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.”

World Needs Motivation Technology India Speed Pace Defence Programmes

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“The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.”

Thinking Needs Bigs Motivation Growth Hours Focus Skills India Increase Speed Scales Think Big Trajectory

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“All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.”

World Needs Generations Buddhism Conflict Empowerment Dignity India Seeds Contribution Mutual Our Future Hinduism Future Generation Endeavour Mutual Respect Free World

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“Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.”

Needs Care Left Nations Poor Behinds Economy Economic Development Empowerment India Take Care Sections Left Behind Deprived Economic Development Complement

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“In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways...We need both Information Ways and Highways.”

Way Needs Information Essentials Empowerment India Eras Highways

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“If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Country Government Moving Nations Behinds Empowerment India Moving Forward Our Country Moving Ahead

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“We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.”

People Needs Cities Empowerment India Assuming Lifestyle Aspiration Village Need A Change

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“However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!”

Thinking Needs May Art Life Is Humanity Technology Impossible India Innovation Combination Art Of Living

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“We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.”

Needs White Heard Revolution India Innovation Blue Green Harness Fisheries Green Revolution

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“Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.”

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“We need to make India capable, prosperous.”

Needs Capable India Prosperous

Author:Narendra Modi

About the Author

Born: September 17, 1950
Known for: Prime Minister of India
Quotes: 720

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