If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.