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 BHUTTOThe 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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 forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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