I Have Never Met A Man More

I'll Impose Upon You The Same Arrogance That Was Imposed On Me, And On My Mother, My Grandmother, My Grandmother's Mother: All The Way Back To The First Human Born Of Another Human Being, Whether He Liked It Or Not. Probably, If He Or She Had Been Allowed To Choose, He Would Have Been Frightened And Answered: No, I Don't Want To Be Born. But No One Asked Their Opinion, And So They Were Born And Lived And Died After Giving Birth To Another Human Being Who Was Not Asked To Choose, And That One Did Likewise, For Millions Of Years, Right Down To Us.

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.

[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.

Why Do The People Humiliate Themselves By Voting? I Didn't Vote Because I Have Dignity. If I Had Closed My Nose And Voted For One Of Them, I Would Spit On My Own Face.

I Didn't Want To Kill A Man. I'm Not Capable Of Killing A Man. I Wanted To Kill A Tyrant.