black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Benazir Bhutto

I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Gold Holocaust Trying
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Mean Needs Peace
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Book Long Pakistan
America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Democracy Freedom Of Speech
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Badly Behave Believe Shocked
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Lying President Ruth Telling
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Helping Others Teamwork
Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Children Father Grief
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Agendas Aim Power
Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracy Freedom Revenge
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Departure Misery Voice
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Giving People Taken
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Democracy Support
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Believe Thinking War
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Fighting Justice
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Freedom Inspirational Inspiring
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Dying People Thinking
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Foundation Justice All Liberty
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Birth Culture Gun Law Military
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Book Jail Way
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Mother Revenge Son
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Fighting War
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Come Death Knows Much Young
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Competent Contests Election
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Men Unity
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Issues Leader Mother

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benazir Bhutto Quotes