A political war can be fought from anywhere.

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

I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

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.

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

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.