I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIt is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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The best revenge is democracy.
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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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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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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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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 still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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 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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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