A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Home is wherever I go.

I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.