Leader

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I am basically a private person.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?