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

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.