Quotes By Imran Khan

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.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

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.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

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.

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.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

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

Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.