This Islam Business Kidnapped Me.

[indira Gandhi] Looked Tired That Day, And All Of A Sudden I Exclaimed, 'deep Down I Don't Envy You, And I Shouldn't Like To Be In Your Place.' And She Said, 'the Problem Is Not In The Problems I Have, It's In The Idiots Around Me. Democracy, You Know...' I Now Wonder What She Meant By That Unfinished Phrase.

I Met Indira Gandhi In Her Office In The Government Palace. The Same Office That Had Been Her Father's - Large, Cold And Plain. She Was Sitting, Small And Slender, Behind A Bare Desk. When I Entered, She Got Up And Came Forward To Give Me Her Hand, Then Sat Down Again And Cut The Preliminaries Short By Fixing Me With A Gaze That Meant: Go Ahead With The First Question, Don't Waste Time, I Really Have No Time To Waste.

The More Democratic And Open A Society Is, The More It's Exposed To Terrorism. The More A Country Is Free, Not Governed By A Police Regime, The More It Risks Hijackings Or Massacres Like The Ones That Took Place For Many Years In Italy And Germany And Other Parts Of Europe.

Listening To Someone Talk Isn't At All Like Listening To Their Words Played Over On A Machine. What You Hear When You Have A Face Before You Is Never What You Hear When You Have Before You A Winding Tape.

Hearing Him Speak Is So Fun, Reassuring I Dare Say. You Can Say All You Like About Sihanouk: That He's An Atrocious Liar, A Madman, A Fraud, A Swashbuckler, An International Blot. You May Think That, But You Cannot Deny How In This Age In Which The Political Arena Seems To Generate Only Dull, Obtuse And Boring Characters With No Imagination, He's A Kind Of Miracle.