I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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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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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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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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