Rahul Gandhi Quotes

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Only powerful people have liberty.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

In this country there is no rank but rank mutton.

People say law but they mean wealth.

It may well be true that, as a former cabinet member, I had better access than some.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'