When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

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.