Benazir Bhutto Quotes - Page 2

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• It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Country, Justice, Able

  Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Justice For All, Liberty, Foundation

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Believe, Shock, Behaving Badly

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Party, Political, Important

  Benazir Bhutto (1988). “Daughter of the East”, Hamish Hamilton

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• I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Girl, Oxford, People

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• We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Opportunity, Men, Islam

  Benazir Bhutto (2009). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, "You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me." It makes me weepy ... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Agendas, Aim

  "'I never asked for power'". Interview with Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Men, Unity, Enemy

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, President, Telling The Truth

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  America, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Want, Privilege

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Opportunity, Government, People

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  War, Believe, Thinking

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Gun, Law

  "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Too Much, Young, Knows

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Courage, Fighting, Democracy

  "Journeying to democracy" by Benazir Bhutto, archive.boston.com. October 18, 2007.

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Pakistan, Yoke

  "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Book, Jail, Way

  Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

  Benazir Bhutto

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• 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 Bhutto

  Mean, America, People

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• I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Islamic, Men, People

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• Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Democracies Have, Support, Democracy

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Government, People, Democracy

  Source: newslinemagazine.com

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