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

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.