Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.