I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.

I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.

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

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.