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 BHUTTOFreedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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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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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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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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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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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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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[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.
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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.
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