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

The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

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

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.