Benazir Bhutto Quotes

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.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

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

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

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

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

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

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

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.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

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.

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.

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

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.

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.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

The best revenge is democracy.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

[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.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

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.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

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

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.

Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

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.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.