Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
BENAZIR BHUTTOGeneral 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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in 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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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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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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