"Politics is the art of acquiring, holding,..." - Quote by Indira Gandhi

“I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.”

“As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.”

“Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”

“Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.”

“If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.”

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.”

“I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.”

“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”