Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
BENAZIR BHUTTOAll through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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The best revenge is democracy.
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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 never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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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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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in 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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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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