To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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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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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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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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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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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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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