Japan's interest in India appears to have grown considerably in the past 3 years. I hope to be able to get $2 billion of Japanese investment every year. Finance minister P Chidambaram, in The Economic Times
There was time when the strength of nations was measured by exclusion and exclusivity. Today we heed a larger truth -- that there is more strength in diversity, more vigour in variety.Lord Swraj Paul in his maiden speech in Britain's House of Lords, as reported by The Asian Age
As two of the largest developing countries in the world, China and India may share their respective experiences, complement each other and expand mutually beneficial cooperation in politics, economics and trade. Visiting Chinese president Jiang Zemin, in The Hindu
What they call contemporary Russian democracy is the mask for a completely different sort of order. A stable and tight oligarchy of 150-200 people is steering the fate of the nation. Nobel prizewinning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in The Hindustan Times
The World Trade Organisation is going to be moving very slowly because there is no major leadership taking it forward fast. Jeffrey Garten, former US undersecretary for commerce in Financial Times
Now that the initial global investors are already here, the next step for India could be to attract the broader section of larger funds who have so far invested in the developed markets. Roody Sale, director, international capital markets, Jardine Fleming India in The Financial Express