The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

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

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

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

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 am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.