Indira Gandhi Quotes

“Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.”

“I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.”

“I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.”

“I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.”

“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.”

“I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.”

“Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.”

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

“With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.”

“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.”

“Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”