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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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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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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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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 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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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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 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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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