"If I can live life the way I want to, why can't you do it."
"We have always said that yes, he allowed proliferation to Libya, North Korea and Iran. But we cannot allow access to outsiders for his interrogation because one, it is a matter of great sensitivity, and two, it shows lack of confidence in our capability to interrogate and to share the information"
"Well, it's the Roosevelt Hotel I haven't been out of that, ... I'm extremely busy trying to talk to representatives from Iran, Iraq, India and Korea about terrorism, nuclear [proliferation] and human rights"
"Pakistan is against the nuclear proliferation but at the same time supports that every country has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) regulations"
"He was the only one who appealed for clemency for his life."
"Death does not exist. It is life that is a predominant reality, not death"
"You will no doubt agree with me that the first duty of a government is to maintain law and order, so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.....…if we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor."
"If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must…bring our educational policy and programme on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast development that have taken place all over the world….What we have to do is to mobilize our people and build up the character of our future generation……In short, we have to build up the character of our future generations which means highest sense of honour, integrity, selfless service to the nation, and sense of responsibility, and we have to see that they are fully qualified or equipped to play their part in the various branches of economic life in a manner which will do honour to Pakistan"
"Musalmans are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State. We wish to live in peace and harmony with our neighbours as a free and independent people. We wish our people to develop to the fullest our spiritual, cultural, economic social, and political life in a way that we think best, and in consonance with our own ideals and according to the genius of our people"
"We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation. We are a nation of a hundred million people, and, what is more, we are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, legal laws and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and traditions, aptitudes and ambitions – in short, we have our own distinctive outlook on life and of life. By all canons of international law we are a nation"