Ability is not always gauged by examination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

I don't think my father was my mentor.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.