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You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

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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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Democracy
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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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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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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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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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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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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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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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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Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.
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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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