I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

Never answer a hypothetical question.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.