Prabhupada: There is chance of being accepted all over the world. They are… There is now opposition, and some of the politicians, they’re of opinion that “This culture, Hare Krsna movement, is spreading like epidemic, and if we do not check, in ten years’ time they’ll take the government.”

Indian man (1): Of America.

Prabhupada: Yes. [laughter] That there is possibility, because these young men, they are taking. So everywhere revolution takes place by young men. So if it is actually spreading like epidemic, and young men, they are taking part, so within ten years it is not impossible.

Guest (1): It’s a very good idea, then, to follow it. I’m quite serious.

Prabhupada: And they are democratic. It can pull down even a President like Nixon. So if they like, if the majority becomes Krsna conscious, they can make Krsna conscious government. There is no wonder in it. So anyway, because these youngsters in the Western countries, both in Europe and America, are taking… And the recent telegram we have received… Just see how many books we have sold.

Room Conversation — January 8, 1977, Bombay