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 BHUTTOYou 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.
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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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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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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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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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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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 best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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 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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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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