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Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority nation. As Prime Minister of Pakistan, her leadership faced both significant achievements and major challenges. She continues to inspire many as a symbol of democracy and women's empowerment in the Muslim world. Here are 66 of her quotes:

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges. (Benazir Bhutto)
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. View quote
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. View quote
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. View quote
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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. View quote
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. View quote
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return. View quote
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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. (Benazir Bhutto)
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. View quote
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Occupation: Pakistani Leader
Born: June 21, 1953
Died: December 27, 2007
Quotes count: 66
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