Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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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.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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