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

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.