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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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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 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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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 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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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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