The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.