I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

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.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

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

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.