What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

The best revenge is democracy.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.