My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

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

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

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.