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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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.
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Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
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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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It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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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 refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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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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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.
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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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[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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