It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?