With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

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.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.