Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.