The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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