Manmohan Singh Quotes

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

Democratic societies with established institutions must help those societies that do not yet have established institutions.

Democracy is usually seen as a pacifying force that “draws the teeth” from conflict.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf brought stability to a place that was going to Hell.

Being a very young democracy, we are going to have a fair amount of grumbling that will emerge from our economy…

Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.