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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.

Benazir Bhutto

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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Birth Culture Gun Law Military
[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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Lying President Ruth Telling
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Military Privilege 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
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
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
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Fough Peace Political War
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
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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Freedom Inspirational Inspiring
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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Children Father Grief
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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Freedom Fundamneatl Giving Needs Wish
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
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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Foundation Justice All Liberty
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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Age Intellectual Religion
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
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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Book Long Pakistan
It 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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Giving People Taken
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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Issues Leader Mother
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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Believe Thinking War
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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Development Dream Life Pro
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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Country Dictatorship Military Yoke
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Beginning Democracy Ends Freedom
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
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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Enemy Fighting War

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