"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."

"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…"

"You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea."

"The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of …"

"We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us."