In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.