I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness.

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?"