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

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.

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

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.

Do not effort to win but try to lose if your Close one is there to fightHappiness that is achieved after losing to our close one's, that is not possible to achieved even after winning the world

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.