black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Benazir Bhutto

[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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Lying President Ruth Telling
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Awesome Country People Power
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Departure Misery Voice
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Important Party Political
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Fough Peace Political War
The best revenge is democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Best Democracy Revenge
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracy Government People
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Giving People Taken
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Asia Government Military
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Foundation Justice All Liberty
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Home Return Want
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

People Return Support
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Book Jail Way
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Empowering Leader Women
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 BHUTTO

Children Father Grief
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Competent Contests Election
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

California Technology Valleys
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Example Orange People Vote
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Calling Different Years
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Grace Home Nice
America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Democracy Freedom Of Speech
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Development Dream Life Pro
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Dying People Thinking
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Mean Needs Peace
What is not recorded is not remembered.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

History Remember
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Military Privilege Want

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benazir Bhutto Quotes