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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.

Benazir Bhutto

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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Country Example Orange People Vote
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
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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Country Fighting Justice
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Fough Peace Political War
The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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Courage Democracy Fighting
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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Able Country Justice
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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Ministers Prime Want
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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Father Good Happen Rain Thinking
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
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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Done Mean Political
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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Country Democracy Freedom Of Speech
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
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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Giving Matter Self
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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Accomplish Democracy Generation Goal
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
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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Badly Behave Believe Shocked
All 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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Calling Different Years
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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Democracy Government People
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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California Technology Valleys
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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Democracies Helping Others Teamwork
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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Dying People Thinking
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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Diplomats Father Jobs
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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Asia Government Military
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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Addresses Problem Satisfaction
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support

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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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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