Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

I want to just stay focused on my mission. That is to see every girl get the right to education. And I think this is such an important thing that girls get their right to go to school, and we are losing the potential that these young girls have in this region, like Iraq.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.