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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

— Asif Ali Zardari

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My party is committed to a federation.

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

— Marianne Williamson

Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!

— Sukarno

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

— Jacques Delors

I was very political when JFK ran.

— Bob Newhart

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

— Preston Manning

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

— Francesco Guicciardini

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

— Franklin Pierce

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

— Nelson Mandela

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

— Henry Cabot Lodge