America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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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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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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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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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