China And India Quotes

• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  Hu Shih

  Soldier, Independence, India

  "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

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• In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

  Peter Mandelson

  Space, India, Dramatic

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• I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

  Li Peng

  Years, Hands, Progress

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• The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

  Klaus Schwab

  Keys, Issues, India

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• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

  Freeman Dyson

  Optimistic, India, China

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Li Peng

  Country, Rights, Order

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• How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

  George W. Bush

  Country, Agreement, India

  Joint Press Availability with President Lee Myung-Bak of the Republic of Korea in Camp David, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 19, 2008.

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• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Laurent Fabius

  Country, Exercise, Technology

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• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Bhutan, Goal

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.

  Paul Saffo

  Gun, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

  Li Peng

  Country, People, India

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• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Suffering, Climate, India

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Past, Men, Civilization

  "The Genius". Book by Theodore Dreiser, 1915.

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• Burma wants to have good relations with our neighboring countries, China and India. I do believe the United States itself wants to live in harmony with China and India. That's why we have to lay down political policies that are fair for everyone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Believe, Political

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Paris

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

  Maurice Strong

  Country, Interesting, India

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• If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Media, Effort

  "Declaring war on the regulatory state" by Fred Upton, www.washingtontimes.com. October 18, 2010.

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• China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

  Li Peng

  Rivers, Years, Chinese

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• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

  Gale Norton

  Energy, India, Economy

  "Interior Secretary Gale Norton". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2005.

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• The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, India, Nuclear

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• Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oil, India, World

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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