Quote

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.

Indira Gandhi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
Father
Launched
People
Minister
Post
Posts
Ministers
Prime
Prepared
Wrong

More quotes by Indira Gandhi

Image
Home is wherever I go.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
Indira Gandhi
Image
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.
Indira Gandhi
Image
The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
Indira Gandhi
Image
It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
Indira Gandhi
Image
If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today it's outdated.
Indira Gandhi
Image
The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.
Indira Gandhi
Image
It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
Indira Gandhi
Image
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
Indira Gandhi
Image
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.
Indira Gandhi
Image
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.
Indira Gandhi
Image
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I'm trained to difficulties difficulties can't be eliminated from life.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
Indira Gandhi
Image
I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
Indira Gandhi
Image
Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
Indira Gandhi
Image
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Indira Gandhi