It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIt’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
BENAZIR BHUTTONo, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMy 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOIt’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWhile 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOA political war can be fought from anywhere.
BENAZIR BHUTTOAll 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe best revenge is democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMilitary 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWhen 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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