The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The best revenge is democracy.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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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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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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The 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.
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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 know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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 needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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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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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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