Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.

We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi.

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

[Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.

Mujib [Rahman] talks at random, depending on his mood and the disorders of his sick mind.

I don't say it in the Indian fashion that is hypocritically. I say it sincerely because, instead of hatred, I feel great compassion for Mujib Rahiman.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.

Mujib [Rahman], as you've seen, is a congenital liar. He can't help telling lies - it's something stronger than he.

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.