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.

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.

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.

In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds?

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.