The best revenge is democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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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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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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 military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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 am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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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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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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 next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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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 Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
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