My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.

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

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.

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