I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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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’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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