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

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?

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

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.

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.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.