I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Make way for the positive day.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Art lies in concealing art.

We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.