The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPolitical dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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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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[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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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The 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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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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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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The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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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.
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