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 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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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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.
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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 am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I 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.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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.
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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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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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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under 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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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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