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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOFreedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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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.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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 was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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