It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

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