While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMilitary or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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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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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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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.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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