Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

My father was a saint. I'm not.