I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

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

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?