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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWhatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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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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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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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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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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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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