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.

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

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

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.