[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Physical courage is a great test.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.