My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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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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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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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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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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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of 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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