Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

I'm not into sports, and politics is kind of my sport. I love talking about it and debating it and getting into it. I also think people on both sides of the aisle have real exaggerated, incorrect views of the other side, and that is fascinating to me.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.