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Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (born 11 December 1935) is an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party's top troubleshooter.

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I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

Believe, Office, President, Sought

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Aggravates, Hurt, Pain, Problems, Resolved, Violence

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Country, Commitment, Justice For All, Justice, Economic

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

India, Tables, Prosperity, Content, Sit, High

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

Development, Groups, Namely, National, Promotion, Territorial

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Art, Civilization, Creativity, Humanity, Uplifting

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Constitution, Defines, Federal, Ideas, Modern India

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

Example, Future, India, Kashmir, Showing, Stability

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Comfortable, Destiny, Height

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

Opportunity, Rights, Government, Dignity, Ensure

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

Children, Complex, Drama, Integrity, Loyalty, Mother

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

India, Reform, Membership, Council, Place

The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.

Economically, Justice, People, Politically, Powerful, Strong

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Addresses, Erased, Modern, Modern India, Poverty, Theories

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Names, Decision, President, Determine, Cabinet

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

Be Kind, Denmark, Prince, Said, Words

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

Country, Moving, Way, Said, See, 1980S

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

Changes, Delhi, Journey, Lamps, Vast, Village