Benazir Bhutto All Quotes and Sayings

Born: in Karachi, Sindh, PakistanJune 21, 1953
Died: December 27, 2007
Website: http://www.benazirbhutto.org/
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani lawmaker who led the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a middle left ideological group in Pakistan. Bhutto was the principal lady chose for lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan’s first and to date just female leader.

Bhutto was the oldest offspring of previous PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi plummet and Shia Muslim leaning on an unshakable conviction, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish plunge, likewise Shia Muslim with conviction. Her fatherly granddad was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, who came to Larkana District in Sindh before the freedom from his local town of Bhatto Kalan, which is arranged in the Indian province of Haryana.

Bhutto was confirmed as Prime Minister without precedent for 1988 at 35 years old, however was taken out from office 20 months after the fact under the request for then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of supposed defilement. In 1993 she was reappointed however was again taken out in 1996 on comparative charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. She went into purposeful outcast in Dubai in 1998.

Bhutto got back to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, subsequent to arriving at a comprehension with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was allowed pardon and all defilement accusations were removed. She was killed on December 27, 2007, in the wake of withdrawing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, fourteen days before the planned Pakistani general appointment of 2008 where she was a main resistance applicant.

“Benazir Bhutto All Quotes and Sayings”

1. “In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.”
2. “Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.”
3. “I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.”
4. “A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”
5. “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.”
6. “Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.”
7. “Democracy is the best revenge.”
8. “Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.”
9. “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.”
10. “I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction”
11. “Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.”
12. “The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.”
13. “To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.”
14. “I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction – a hostage to my political career.”
15. “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.”
16. “My father always would say, “My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister”, but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, “No, Papa, I will never go into politics.” As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.”
17. “I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn’t know such a power existed, I saw people criticizing their own president; you couldn’t do that in Pakistan – you’d be thrown in prison.”
18. “The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.”
19. “The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.”
20. “As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.”
21. “And also 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.”
22. “What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.”
23. “Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?”
24. “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.”
25. “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.”
26. “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.”
27. “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.”
28. “No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”

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