Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
BENAZIR BHUTTOEvery dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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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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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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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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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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I 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.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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