I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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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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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.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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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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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.
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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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