Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes:- Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the current Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014.
Inspirational Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
In defense, ‘Make in India’ is happening in a big way, and it is not happening without orders coming from the ministry.
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Guess ‘Make in India’ means I have to support India, whether private or public.
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It’s one thing to get the money apportioned in the budget; the other is to utilize it completely.
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On shipbuilding, on the submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance, or small vessel building, we have both public and private sectors. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.
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In a multi-party democracy, many issues which you want – or do not want – will be raised. It is for us to make it relevant or not so relevant to our answers.
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The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.
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Delhi was not completely a new place for me, but as a political worker, it was a new place.
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A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.
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I respect the Forces… but civil services also have a contribution to make. They are there to bridge administration with Forces. They are critical, and I give credit to them. I don’t claim to have done miracles in bridging it, but I have just said the two lines can go parallel.
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Famous Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
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Post globalization, the debate has been, ‘How much more are we going to liberalize?’
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I will be the defense minister round-the-clock.
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We will ensure that the important characters of what makes ‘Make in India’ an important flagship program for PM Modi are given full play for defense production. ‘Make in India’ needs to take over so we benefit from what is manufactured in India and finds an international market.
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It will be a priority for me to ensure the smooth and speedy implementation of defense deals and projects.
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There is something different between the defense deal and deal in defense.
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Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.
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It’s only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.
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India lived in hopelessness, as the government was not responsive. It did not know what the poor needed. There was complete policy paralysis. Corruption was rampant, and terrorists used to play havoc in the country.
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Best Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
The language of any joint statement between the two countries is mulled over many times before it becomes final.
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The government doesn’t go about refuting everything that floats around.
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People have realized that for want of anything substantial, Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They’ve had enough of this muck-raking.
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France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defense matters.
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The first thing I have done for the Tejas is that their capacity to annually produce eight aircraft has now been increased to 16. I have doubled it. For which we have given enough support, we have told them that if they need additional space for testing and trials, we are willing to give it.
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DRDO should introspect to make themselves more nimble towards innovation.
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Dassault could not progress in the negotiations with HAL because if the aircraft were to be produced in India, a guarantee for the product to be produced was to be given. It is a big-ticket item, and the IAF would want the guarantee for the jets. HAL was in no position to give the guarantee.
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Even during negotiation with HAL, Dassault felt that the cost with which the HAL will produce will be far higher than the aircraft produced in France. That was reality.
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I am saying this with a certain sense of confidence and not arrogance. The defense ministry is being run without any middleman and in a transparent way. We have proved that defense procurement can happen without middlemen.
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We are a party that believes that we work in the national interest, not just to please my opposition.
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Bofors was a scam. Rafale is not.
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A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have to be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.
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There are several areas where the border is not completely defined and demarcated.
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Since when has Congress become the protector of the judiciary? Do I have to remind how Indira Gandhi treat the judiciary when one verdict went against them? Rajeev Gandhi in 1988 almost brought the bill, and during that phase, how many cases were filed against the media? And their son and grandson are talking about press freedom.
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None of us should play party to any corporate warfare. We cannot become pawns in the hands of corporate giants’ warfare to constantly bully the government, to throw misinformation to the public, tell part-truth, and part-story to the public.
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Every year, I have given Rs 20,000 crore worth of projects to HAL. But the previous UPA government gave just Rs 10,000 crore projects.
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Greatest Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
For a country like India, which, unlike China, has a domestic market for which manufacturing happens, manufacturing also happens for export.
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If exporters are looking at various factors that influence the performance, the fluctuating rupee will certainly be a factor.
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I understand that the rupee is fairly market-determined.
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The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.
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WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.
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Bilaterals are like building blocks for multilateral.
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Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.
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Issues related to investor-state disputes are a matter of serious concern. It is something that we have to apply our minds to.
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Shouldn’t India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?
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Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.
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I would love to help the textile sector, but at the same time, a big red flag is held by the automotive parts and automotive sector. They don’t want to open up to the European Union.
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Powerful Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
You can’t hold the armed forces responsible for being firm with terrorists. We need to be firm with terrorists.
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Unlike some of our neighbors, India does not believe in dirty bombs. We take non-proliferation very seriously.
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Many countries that are no longer able to afford their public health systems, which have made certain promises within their countries to purchase from free-market or from other economies, are approaching us seeking help with the supply of generic drugs, which is opening a very big room of opportunity for us.
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A buyer can buy anything from wherever he gets it cheap. Where will the Indian trader or farmer go in this case? Are we ready to see people sitting with their product and no international retailer wanting to buy from them?
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A lot of discussions and debates happen in our party. Isn’t it good to have a democratically run party rather than a dynastic one? So obviously, discussions do happen, and they are for the good.
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The challenge we face as a government is meeting expectations – not specific expectations, but the larger expectations: things that need to be changed and that Narendra Modi will do it as though he has a magic wand.
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The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress’s corruption.
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Rupee fluctuation is not so significant compared with other currencies. Fluctuations in currencies have been fairly steady. As the finance minister often says, the fluctuation is the new normal.
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In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.
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We look at gold from the view of the Indian market, which loves to buy more and more gold.
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The Rafale deal narrative that Congress is setting is propaganda that has international ramifications.
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We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.
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Having witnessed first-hand the prowess of the Western Fleet, I am confident that the Indian Navy is fully capable of defending the nation against any form of threat.
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The government took a decision to implement ‘One Rank, One Pension’ for defense personnel in 2015 and promised to pay arrears in four installments. I can say that all OROP arrears have been cleared, with over Rs 10,788 crore being spent.
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From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India’s PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.
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