I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

The best revenge is democracy.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.