[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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIt’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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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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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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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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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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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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