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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
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
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Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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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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I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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Home is wherever I go.
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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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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.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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