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

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.

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.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.