Narendra Modi Quotes
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.
Modi, Narendra. "Address at the Launch of 'Make in India' Campaign." Press Information Bureau, Government of India, 25 Sep. 2014.
Actually, Kerry was incorrect, but he had a point, There are about 110,000 employees of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and every state has their own department of Agriculture with employees. There are about 2 million farms in America. So there is a government agriculture employee for about every 15 farms—a ratio that no other occupation shares.
His admonition did little good. That Congress passed fewer bills than any other in history.
There were a number of hyper conservatives at the time who actually believed this. They either tend to ignore for ideological reasons, the incredible role that local, state, and the Federal government has played in many of the great innovations in our nation. It was a Federal Contract that allowed Eli Whitney to develop the technique of manufacturing with interchangeable parts. The Erie Canal, the greatest and most innovative engineering project in the world at the time was built by the New York State government with State money, It was a Abraham Lincoln Federal contract that produced the research to make the telegraph feasible. Under Theodore Roosevelt, a Federal Government grant made it possible to control Yellow Fever. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the Army and the Treasure Department fund and operate the Manhattan project which not only developed the atomic bomb but also innovated the tools and methods for nuclear energy production. Most of the early computer programs in America were written by Government employees or by people who were working under government contracts. It was the Army that not only financed but also provided key staff in DARPA which produced the Internet. The Decoding of the Human Genome was the joint innovation of a private group and a Research Laboratory of the National Institutes of Health, and the majority of medical innovations (including pharmaceuticals) in the last 50 years were produced by Government Scientists or Financed by Government Agencies. There are literally thousands of others, a;; of which must be ignored to claim that Government curtails innovation. There has also been a great deal of important innovation that has occurred by independent individuals and private companies without the help of government. The great innovative success of America has been because both the private and public sectors, sometimes working independently and sometimes together has produced a steady production of important innovations that are the envey of the world.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a majority in the Lok Sabha.
