I have repeated ad nauseam my party's issues, which range from improving the lot of the poor to women's issues.

I have no problem working with anybody as long as they are efficient and their intentions, their philosophy, their ideology are clear.

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

You can play a role in the shaping of tomorrow's world by asking yourself questions like, 'What kind of world do I want to live in?' and 'What does democracy mean to me?'

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.