I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
BENAZIR BHUTTOGeneral 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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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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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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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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