My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.

- Indira Gandhi

I am frequently attacked.

- Indira Gandhi

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

- Indira Gandhi

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

- Indira Gandhi

I don't think my father was my mentor.

- Indira Gandhi

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

- Indira Gandhi

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

- Indira Gandhi

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

- Indira Gandhi

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

- Indira Gandhi

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

- Indira Gandhi

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

- Indira Gandhi

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

- Indira Gandhi

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

- Indira Gandhi

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

- Indira Gandhi

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

- Indira Gandhi

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

- Indira Gandhi

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

- Indira Gandhi

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

- Indira Gandhi

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

- Indira Gandhi

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

- Indira Gandhi