It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

It is the time to move ahead and bring the change

Poverty is just a state of mind.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

Never underestimate the power of thought.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.