What is not recorded is not remembered.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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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 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.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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