"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs"

"Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it"

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."

"I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope."

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."

"You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."