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

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.