In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I’m pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
My father always would say, My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister, but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, No, Papa, I will never go into politics. As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. 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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