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.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.

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

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.