Indira Gandhi Quotes

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Indira Gandhi

Profession : Statesman

Birth : November 19, 1917

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Indira Gandhi

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

Indira Gandhi

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

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

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

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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?

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I don't think my father was my mentor.

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

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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

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

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

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

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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

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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.

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I am frequently attacked.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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