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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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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.
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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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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.
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When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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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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