As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMy 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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 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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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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