Top 40 Quotes by Indira Gandhi

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

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

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

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

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

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.