People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.