Manmohan Singh Quotes

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

These vast lands [Africa, South America, Asia]... need only assistance from us to be civilized.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

The prosperity of the State can only reflect the prosperity of its subjects …. The greater the number the skilled subjects, the greater is the potential for prosperity for king and kingdom.

Modernization is found in markets.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

Except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

Maine is competing with the rest of the country for jobs and for economic development and we're going to be on the front edge of that competition. And technology is one of the ways to do it.

American and world history show that if you want minimal government, you can have it—but only if you want almost everyone in your society also to be a dirt-poor, subsistence farmer. If you want a prosperous, growing modern economy, you need high specialization and a huge, complex, interdependent network of individuals, businesses, research centers and education. And only government has the authority or money to regulate that network and to regularly pump in the targeted funds needed to sustain and grow it.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

We made a commitment to the people of this state that we would focus on jobs, health and education. We made a commitment that we would work as hard as we possibly can to make sure that people across our state can get access to employment.

We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.