It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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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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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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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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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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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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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