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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.

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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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
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It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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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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If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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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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A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.
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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'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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When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.
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