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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.
Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.
Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.
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.
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.
For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
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.
Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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.
Mujib [Rahman] talks at random, depending on his mood and the disorders of his sick mind.
Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.
To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.
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.
Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.
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.
I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.
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.
Mujib [Rahman], as you've seen, is a congenital liar. He can't help telling lies - it's something stronger than he.
We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!
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
Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.