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.

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.

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

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