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.

We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

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

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.