Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
BENAZIR BHUTTOOppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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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 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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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