“Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.”

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.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

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’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I’m not saying the Democrats don’t want a strong economy. Don’t misunderstand. They just don’t want it now.

That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Democrats have polluted our department of justice to do their bidding.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

This level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable.