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

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

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.

Unborn, never died, ever alive - thus is the Ultimate Reality. Of God. And of the Universal Self. As too, your own.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.