Benazir Bhutto
Democracy is the best revenge.Collection: Revenge
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.Collection: Technology
The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Believe
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.Collection: Want
It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.Collection: Country
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.Collection: Religious
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Men
[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.Collection: Lying
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.Collection: Too Much
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.Collection: Courage
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.Collection: Book
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?Collection: War
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.Collection: Government
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.Collection: Lying
It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.Collection: Mean
The best revenge is democracy.Collection: Revenge
Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.Collection: Jail
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.Collection: People
A political war can be fought from anywhere.Collection: War
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.Collection: Mother
I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.Collection: Political
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.Collection: Thinking
It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...Collection: Easter
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.Collection: Ukraine
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.Collection: Military
The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.Collection: Guarantees
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Taken
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.Collection: Father
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.Collection: Home