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

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

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

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.

It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.