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“The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”

“The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.”

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Author:Gale Norton

“In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!”

Believe I Can Done Bigs Girl Football India Wave London Articles Wow Bending Playing Football Beckham

Author:Parminder Nagra

“All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.”

Want Home Return India Adopted Bangladesh Motherland

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.”

Fall Parent Generations Changed India West Categories 1960s

Author:Archie Panjabi

“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?”

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Author:Dev Patel

“My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.”

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Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.”

“Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.”

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Author:Li Peng

“If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?”

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Author:Sharad Pawar

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

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Author:Ginni Rometty

“But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.”

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Author:Prem Rawat

“China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.”

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Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.”

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Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.”

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Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.”

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Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!”

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Author:Curtis Stone

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

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“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.”

Thinking Has Beens Economy Standards India Western Driven Market Economy Public Sector Mixed Economy

Author:Manmohan Singh

“China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.”

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Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.”

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Author:Robert Trout

“If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.”

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Author:Elizabeth Vargas

“It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.”

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Author:Elizabeth Vargas

“I'm not too interested in books about India.”

Book India

Author:Beatrice Wood

“Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.”

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Author:Dylan Walsh

“Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.”

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Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

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Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”

Born India

Author:Aasif Mandvi

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