All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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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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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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[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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