A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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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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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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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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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 is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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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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