When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.

Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.