"We don't want war, but we are ready for war"
"We want to curb the menace of terrorism. The staff would be given training in modern skills to track down the culprits involved in such heinous crimes"
"Now that he is taunting me, well, all that I would like to say, I want to eliminate all of them"
"The people of Pakistan want (democracy), and I certainly want it. There is no problem there"
"We were not the first to test, and will not be the first to resume testing, ... We do not want to see an arms race, nuclear or conventional, in our region"
"We do not want war. We will not initiate war"
"Why should there be a rush? ... We are clear in our stance. We want to progress toward resolution of the Palestinian dispute, and as progress is made, Pakistan would like to keep reviewing its diplomatic stance"
"You must understand the environment in Pakistan, This has become a moneymaking concern. A lot of people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped"
"the Indian accusation is that there is cross-border terrorism, which we call freedom struggle. I don't want to get involved in any kind of definition because it is too complicated an issue and unnecessarily creates misunderstanding. Any violence against civilians is terrorism. That is how I define terrorism."
"I don't want to get bogged down in semantics causing problems"