Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.