Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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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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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 found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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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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