Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

In India, we have a concept of caste. It has a concept of escape velocity. If one belongs to a backward caste and wants to attain success then one needs an escape velocity to attain that success. Dalits in this country need the escape velocity of Jupiter to attain success.

— Rahul Gandhi

Every situation that Indian person finds himself in is extremely complex. We have to deal with the red lights. As young leaders here have to deal with senior leaders, suddenly someone disrupts your entire life. Everything happens, sort of, according to your karma; it’s all random.

— Rahul Gandhi

Poverty is a state of mind.

— Rahul Gandhi

If you go back a hundred, two hundred years, you would find that India is energy; it is a force. If you go back a thousand years, two thousand years, you would find that force came from our rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati. We worshiped these rivers and the reason we worshiped these rivers was because that is where our energy came from, and everything we had was built on these rivers. Now, we have gone way beyond that. We have built structures that are allowing this energy to rise, to explode.

— Rahul Gandhi

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.

— Rahul Gandhi

Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.

— Rahul Gandhi

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.

— Rahul Gandhi

You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.

— Rahul Gandhi

(After terrorist attacks in Mumbai) Terrorism is impossible to be stopped at all time. We will stop 99% of the attacks; 1% of the attacks will get through. You feel US has stopped all terrorist attacks? US is currently involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, where there are attacks every single day. On them. Not in US, but on them. The war has moved.

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

— Rahul Gandhi

I would not have been here if I was not from a political family.

— Rahul Gandhi