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.

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.

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.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.

People believe in everything, except the reality.

You lose yourself in books. You find your self there too.

Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.