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Democracy is the best revenge.
The best revenge is democracy.
What is not recorded is not remembered.
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.
I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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.
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
[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.
All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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.
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.
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.
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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.
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.