Indira Gandhi Quotes

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

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.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl.

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

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.