Top 40 Quotes by 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?

I am frequently attacked.

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

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

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

There is not love where there is no will.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

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

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.