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

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

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

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.

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.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

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

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

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.

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.