I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.

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

You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.