"I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim…"

"We must stand united against terrorism."

"Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning."

"State-sponsored suppression of political opposition is the first step for a polity's regression to political tyranny. Use of terror and torture without recourse to trial is the second. Use of extremis…"

"A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism."