Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI’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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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 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 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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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