How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHII was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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 sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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