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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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[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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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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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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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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