There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.