Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHIThe future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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