Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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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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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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.
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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’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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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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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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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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