Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
BENAZIR BHUTTOOur 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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.
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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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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.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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