Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTOLike 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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