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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
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!
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The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened - women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.
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If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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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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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.
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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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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious ambition may help him see reality.
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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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The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.
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