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.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

There is not love where there is no will.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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