We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIn a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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.
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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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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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.
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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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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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