Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

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.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.