I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWhat is not recorded is not remembered.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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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 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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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.
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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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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