You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.
India is going to be the 21st century’s Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources.
If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.
I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth.
We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.
Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
What is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.
Passion is listening.
When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.
See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that’s the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there’s Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That’s the power of India. That’s the power of Indian people.
India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, “Do you have elephants on the road?” Nobody is saying that today.
A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?
A Dalit needs Jupiter’s escape velocity to achieve success.