I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.