To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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