My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

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.

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.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.