Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThrough democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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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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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 Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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