China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

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.

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

Train your mind to see the opportunity in every adversity.

Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.