It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'