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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.

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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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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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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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.
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Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had met him, I'm sure I wouldn't have got married again. Why should I get married now that my life is so full? No, no, it's out of the question.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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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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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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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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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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.
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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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By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
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Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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