To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIt 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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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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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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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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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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[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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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