2010: Year in quotes

The Express Tribune brings you the best of quotes in 2010.

Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s talk show GPS, responding to Beck’s’ ‘fuzzy math’:

One hundred people times 11,000 terror attacks equals 1,100,000 people, but Glenn Beck’s figure is 157 times higher than that. If in fact there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world, what were the other 155,900,000 of them doing last year?

Lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir, speaking on the eve of her election as President of the Supreme Court Bar Association:

I have defeated elements who, in the name of the rule of law, are trying to pursue their vested interests.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani after the National Assembly approved the 19th constitutional amendment which settles the mechanism for the appointment of top judges:

It’s a big decision which underscores the fact that state institutions should respect other.

Former Religious Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Kazmi, commenting on the Hajj scam that countless pilgrims fell victim to in 2010:

Corruption this year has been comparatively less than previous years.

Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza, defending his earlier statement that targeted the MQM:

It was nothing personal. My statement was based on intelligence reports, which comprised facts.

Glenn Beck, right wing American talk show host:

What is the number of Islamic terrorists? One per cent? I think it’s closer to ten per cent but the rest of the Politically Correct world will tell you, ‘oh no, it’s miniscule.’

Chief minister of Balochistan, Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, commenting after several parliamentarians were found to be holding falsified degreed:

A degree is a degree, whether it is fake or genuine.

Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks:

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Shahid Afridi, after playing an abysmal shot in a test match:

I don’t know why I played that shot.

US Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke’s last words:

You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.

Aafia Siddiqui after US Judge Richard Berman sentenced her to incarceration for 86 years:

Forgive everybody in my case, please… and also forgive Judge Berman.

Chief Justice Ifitikhar Muhammad Chaudhary after the passage of the 18th Amendment, referring to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf:

The 18th constitutional amendment retains many provisions that were introduced by the dictator.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2011.