“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

“I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.”

“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.”

“I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!”

“Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.”

“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

“It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.”

“We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.”