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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
Indira Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
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Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.
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You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
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It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
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I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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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.
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For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.
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Home is wherever I go.
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I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.
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