The best revenge is democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWhat is not recorded is not remembered.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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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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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 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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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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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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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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