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.
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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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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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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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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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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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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