Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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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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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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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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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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