America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.