What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMy goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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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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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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