As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

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.