I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

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.

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.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.