Quotes by Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

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

Be Kind

Denmark

Said

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 India its next golden age.

Age

Past

Views

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

Comfortable

Destiny

Height

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

Father

Party

Years

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

Membership

Reform

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.

Journey

Lamps

Village

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

Believe

Office

President

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of ‘Jai Hind!’ also signalled its end in 1947.

Century

India

Rallying Cry

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

Our Generation

Personality

Role Models

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

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Be Kind

Believe

Century

Children

Class

Comfortable

Commitment

Constitution

Country

Creativity

Decision

Denmark

Destiny

Development

Example

Father

Government

Groups

Growth

Height

Human Rights

Humiliation

Hunger

Hurt

Ideas

India

Journey

Justice

Justice For All

Kashmir

Lamps

Loyalty

Membership

Modern India

Mother

Moving

Names

Office

Opportunity

Our Generation

Pain

Party

Past

Personality

Poverty

Powerful

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Quotes by Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

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

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 India its next golden age.

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

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.

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.

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

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of ‘Jai Hind!’ also signalled its end in 1947.

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

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.

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