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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMilitary hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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 the best revenge.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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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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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 am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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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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