As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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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 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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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