Indira Gandhi — "I am not easily intimidated."

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint, I am a sinner."

"The world is full of people who are trying to pluck the feathers of a bird without disturbing its flight."

"I have often wondered whether it is right to be so deeply involved in politics, for it leaves little time for other things."

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of its cities, nor the crops in its fields, but the kind of man the country turns out."