I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.

In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the people are conscious of our efforts, now that they see us resolving problems, the communists are losing strength.

For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.