Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPurusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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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 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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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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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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