A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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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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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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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 was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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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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