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I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

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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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Writer
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
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I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.
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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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 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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Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.
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Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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 said, 'Planning is something for communist countries democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.
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There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
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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.
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Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.
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