“[I was] not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution.”

—  K. R. Narayanan

Source: The Hindu Editor A salute to Citizen Narayanan http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/10/stories/2005111005821000.htm, The Hindu, 10 November 2011

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