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

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.

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

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

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