I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi However, the treaty exists and it puts us in a different position toward the Soviet Union than the one we have toward other countries. Yes, the treaty exists. Nor does it exist on only one side. Look how w3e're situated geographically and you'll see that India is very important for the Soviet Union. Indira Gandhi india important country To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together. Indira Gandhi crazy struggle thinking Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it. Indira Gandhi convince joyous people I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly. Indira Gandhi pride giving thinking Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve. Indira Gandhi revolt jew [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to. Indira Gandhi doe men mean Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources. Indira Gandhi defeat victory lasts The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life. Indira Gandhi young life needs The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister. Indira Gandhi giving-up want country We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war. Indira Gandhi war long people I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool. Indira Gandhi giving hands years If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home. Indira Gandhi offering feet home All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh 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 pursuit-of-happiness liberty people I certainly won't have an empty life! Indira Gandhi empty-life empty Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know. Indira Gandhi clothes london students By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism. Indira Gandhi socialism germany forget America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country. Indira Gandhi stronger country america [Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor. Indira Gandhi taught favors people When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react. Indira Gandhi difficult mines worry To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable. Indira Gandhi function desirable politics
