The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

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.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the people are conscious of our efforts, now that they see us resolving problems, the communists are losing strength.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

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