Quotes by Benazir Bhutto

“despite it our many people won their seats.”

“It pains me that they are using the judicial authorities here to score certain political points back home in Pakistan.”

“militants are going to land up in Pakistan, try to regroup there and redirect their efforts in southern Afghanistan and perhaps other parts of the world.”

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

“He is highly unpopular, ... because people in our country blame the military for destabilizing civilian government.”

“We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard,”

“dangerous, repressive era with a man (Sharif) who has his finger on a nuclear button.”

“I think its very unfortunate for Pakistan that yet another government, a democratically-elected government elected by the people has been dismissed. I think it says something about the fact that our democratic institutions havent worked.”

“Now, when people are dying, you dont really look at whos offering the help. You take it. The first issue should be to help the people.”

“They were no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they cant infiltrate terrorism?”

Democracy is the best revenge.

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.

Benazir Bhutto doesnt cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Clearly its not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.

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.

Its true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; thats the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world communitys best guarantee of stability in Asia.

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.

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

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in womens issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.