Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI 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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
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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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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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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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