Top 35 Rahul Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let’s fight against corruption for a better India.”

— Rahul Gandhi

2. “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?”

— Rahul Gandhi

3. “Poverty is a state of mind.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

6. “It is the time to move ahead and bring the change.”

— Rahul Gandhi

7. “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.”

— Rahul Gandhi

8. “We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth.”

— Rahul Gandhi

9. “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.”

— Rahul Gandhi

10. “India absorbs things; India’s not a divisive place.”

— Rahul Gandhi

11. “Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.”

— Rahul Gandhi

12. “Passion is listening.”

— Rahul Gandhi

13. “I have an aim – I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.”

— Rahul Gandhi

14. “A Dalit needs Jupiter’s escape velocity to achieve success.”

— Rahul Gandhi

15. “India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

18. “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.”

— Rahul Gandhi

19. “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

20. “We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.”

— Rahul Gandhi

21. “I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.”

— Rahul Gandhi

22. “All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.”

— Rahul Gandhi

23. “When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

25. “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

26. “We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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27. “It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.”

— Rahul Gandhi

28. “Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.”

— Rahul Gandhi

29. “The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.”

— Rahul Gandhi

30. “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.”

— Rahul Gandhi

31. “What is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.”

— Rahul Gandhi

32. “India is going to be the 21st century’s Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources.”

— Rahul Gandhi

33. “I believe that a politician needs to be with people.”

— Rahul Gandhi

34. “If India is computer, Congress is its default program.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

36. “I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, “Do you have elephants on the road?” Nobody is saying that today.”

— Rahul Gandhi

37. “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.”

— Rahul Gandhi

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

— Rahul Gandhi

39. “We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.”

— Rahul Gandhi