I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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The best revenge is democracy.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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.
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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.
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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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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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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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