I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.

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