I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy 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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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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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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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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Oppression 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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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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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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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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 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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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 still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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