Rahul Gandhi Quotes

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

Lokpal Bill alone is not adequate to fight corruption. We need a comprehensive anti-corruption code in this country. The UPA Government has developed a powerful anti-corruption frame work consisting of eight new Central laws...... This is not about one Bill, this is about a frame work and we want to deliver that frame work to the country

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

It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single rule or regulation. We create new rules every two minutes and then dump them. Nobody knows the rules in the party

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.

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.

Passion is listening.

(When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it.

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?

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

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.

Let's fight against corruption for a better India

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.

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.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.

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.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.

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

We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

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.

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.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

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.

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.

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.

What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

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.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources