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 BHUTTOBeing in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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 United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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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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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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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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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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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