I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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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.
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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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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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