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.
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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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 best revenge is democracy.
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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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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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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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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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