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

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!