"I want to become a Prime Minister of Pakistan, and I think it's really good. Because through politics I can serve my whole county. I can be the doctor of the whole country. I can spend much of the money from the budget on education," she said. It appears that becoming prime minister is a means to the end she has dedicated her life to.
She is modest about her prospects. She feels that giving her the prize at this point might be a little premature and more appropriate further down her life's path. She wants to work for it first.
I think that it's really an early age. And I would feel proud, when I would work for education, when I would have done something, when I would be feeling confident to tell people, 'Yes! I have built that school; I have done that teachers' training, I have sent that (many) children to school,'" she said. "Then if I get the Nobel Peace Prize, I will be saying, Yeah, I deserve it, somehow."