A Nation' S Strength Ultimately Consists In

The India I Want, I'll Never Tire Of Repeating, Is A More Just And Less Poor India, One Entirely Free Of Foreign Influences. If I Thought The Country Was Already Marching Toward These Objectives, I'd Give Up Politics Immediately And Retire As Prime Minister.

Without Courage, You Cannot Practice Any Other Virtue. You Have To Have Courage - Courage Of Different Kinds: First, Intellectual Courage, To Sort Out Different Values And Make Up Your Mind About Which Is The One Which Is Right For You To Follow. You Have To Have Moral Courage To Stick Up To That - No Matter What Comes In Your Way, No Matter What The Obstacle And The Opposition Is.

I Suggested A Compromise To Give The Banks A Year's Time And See If They Succeed In Showing Us That Nationalization Wasn't Necessary. The Year Went By And We Realized It Hadn't Done Any Good, That The Money Still Ended Up In The Hands Of The Rich Industrialists Or Friends Of The Bankers. So I Concluded That It Was Necessary To Nationalize The Banks. And We Did. Without Considering It A Socialist Gesture Or An Antisocialist Gesture, Just A Necessary One. Anyone Who Nationalizes Only So As To Be Considered On The Left To Me Is A Fool.

There Exists No Politician In India Daring Enough To Attempt To Explain To The Masses That Cows Can Be Eaten.

My Children Needed Me, And I Like My Job As A Social Worker.