If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.

I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.