Poverty is just a state of mind.

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

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.

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.

If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.