Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
BENAZIR BHUTTOEvery dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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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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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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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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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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