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.

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.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

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.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.