My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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 am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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It 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.
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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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[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.
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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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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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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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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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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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