As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct. Indira Gandhi party people moving I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in. Indira Gandhi know-how mood shows ... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people. Indira Gandhi support intellectual people I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India. Indira Gandhi pakistan favors india We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible Indira Gandhi economic prosperity believe I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them. Indira Gandhi mother house father When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more. Indira Gandhi selfish young The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. Indira Gandhi bureaucracy term masters You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded. Indira Gandhi democracy errors country Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me. Indira Gandhi honesty done war Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much. Indira Gandhi cities long years Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality. Indira Gandhi uncles mother sex Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied. Indira Gandhi prime village jobs Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father. Indira Gandhi understanding men father People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong. Indira Gandhi prime father people When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences. Indira Gandhi suspects helping father 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 small-steps prejudice acting My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not. Indira Gandhi saint political father Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards. Indira Gandhi irritation mountain country The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate. Indira Gandhi difficult letters writing
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