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

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

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

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!