Democracies Quotes by Benazir Bhutto

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people…

— Benazir Bhutto

[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

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

— Benazir Bhutto

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven,…

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Benazir Bhutto

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

— Benazir Bhutto

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

— Benazir Bhutto

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human…

— Benazir Bhutto

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…

— Benazir Bhutto

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social…

— Benazir Bhutto

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

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

— Benazir Bhutto