Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

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