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"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."
"When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane."
"If India is computer, Congress is its default program."
"(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."
"Passion is listening."
"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?"
"India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century."
"I believe that a politician needs to be with people."