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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
Indira Gandhi -
The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
Indira Gandhi
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If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
Indira Gandhi -
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.
Indira Gandhi -
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi -
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi -
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Indira Gandhi -
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
Indira Gandhi
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi -
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi -
I'm certainly not a workaholic.
Indira Gandhi -
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi -
I am frequently attacked.
Indira Gandhi -
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Indira Gandhi -
This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
Indira Gandhi -
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
Indira Gandhi -
My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.
Indira Gandhi -
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
Indira Gandhi