Manmohan Singh Quotes
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.
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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
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When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.
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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
