Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.
We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress.
It is the time to move ahead and bring the change.
We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
If India is computer, Congress is its default program.
Let’s fight against corruption for a better India.
Poverty is a state of mind.
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.
Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
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.
I have an aim – I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.
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.
It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India.
It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
India absorbs things; India’s not a divisive place.