Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Prime Minister after her father...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1917
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
Indira Gandhi quotes about
A letter containing names and addresses of People's Consultative Group (PCG) members was formally handed over to the PMO on Friday evening,
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
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.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?