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

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.

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.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

“Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.” — Indira Gandhi

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” — Indira Gandhi