I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTONo, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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 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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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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 found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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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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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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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 am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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