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 dict…

- Pranab Mukherjee

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

- Pranab Mukherjee

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

- Pranab Mukherjee

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

- Pranab Mukherjee

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…

- Pranab Mukherjee

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

- Pranab Mukherjee

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 pract…

- Pranab Mukherjee

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- sta…

- Pranab Mukherjee

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring…

- Pranab Mukherjee