I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

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.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.