Sonia Gandhi Quotes

The legislator commands the future.

I can't give political advice to politicians.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.

The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched.

Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.

While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.

To get Congress to do anything.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.