Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

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.

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.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.