The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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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.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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