I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.