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

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

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.