All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

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.

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

You can't bluff an old theologian. Linus

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.

Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

Love Actually [is] one of the cutest Christmas movies.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.