[visiting Richard Nixon] Useful Only To Me.

How Can Anybody Who Is The Head Of A Nation Afford Not To Be A Prag-matist?

I Suggested A Compromise To Give The Banks A Year's Time And See If They Succeed In Showing Us That Nationalization Wasn't Necessary. The Year Went By And We Realized It Hadn't Done Any Good, That The Money Still Ended Up In The Hands Of The Rich Industrialists Or Friends Of The Bankers. So I Concluded That It Was Necessary To Nationalize The Banks. And We Did. Without Considering It A Socialist Gesture Or An Antisocialist Gesture, Just A Necessary One. Anyone Who Nationalizes Only So As To Be Considered On The Left To Me Is A Fool.

People Often Ask Me: Who Has Influenced You The Most? Your Father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, My Choices Were Fundamentally Influenced By Them, By The Spirit Of Equality They Infused In Me - My Obsession For Justice Comes From My Father, Who In Turn Got It From Mahatma Gandhi.

I Suspected [richard Nixon] Was Very Pro-pakistan. Or Rather I Knew That The Americans Had Always Been In Favor Of Pakistan - Not So Much Because They Were In Favor Of Pakistan, But Because They Were Against India.

Popularity Is Not A Gurantee Of Quality.