Imran Khan

“The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.”

“I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.”

“At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.”

“The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.”

“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.”

“So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.”

“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.”

“You don't kill your way to peace.”

“I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.”

“What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.”

“When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.”

“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?”

“In Pakistan politics is hereditary.”

“There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures”

“Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.”

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

“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.”

“But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”

“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.”

“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.”