I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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