Imran Khan
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.Collection: Government
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.Collection: Trust
There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.Collection: Politics
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.Collection: Death
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.Collection: Government
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.Collection: Hope
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.Collection: Money
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.Collection: Power
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?Collection: War
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.Collection: Experience
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.Collection: Marriage
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.Collection: Politics
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.Collection: Politics
You don't kill your way to peace.Collection: Peace
Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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.
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
I am basically a private person.
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.Collection: Mean
Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.Collection: Giving Up
Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.Collection: Dream
You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief.Collection: Pakistan
Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will becomeCollection: Dream
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.Collection: Deep Thought
I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTANCollection: Pakistan
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.Collection: Sports
I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and won't be like those leaders who create hideouts abroadCollection: Country
Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.Collection: Liberty
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.Collection: Sports
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.Collection: Study
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?Collection: Children
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.Collection: Goal
I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerousCollection: Team
I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.Collection: Ambition