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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.

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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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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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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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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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[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.
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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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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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