Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
BENAZIR BHUTTO[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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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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 government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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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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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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