I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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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