Benazir Bhutto

Democracy is the best revenge.

I didn’t choose this life; it chose me.

The Taliban are not a threat to me personally. They are a threat to the world.

I am what time, circumstances, and history have made me.

In my view, dictatorship fuels extremism. The extremists feed off dictatorship, and dictatorship feeds off the extremists. The dictatorship needs the extremists to justify its existence, and the extremists need dictatorship to expand and spread.

The solution to the “ascendancy in the activities of the extremists,” she pointed out, was “respecting the constitution, respecting the rule of law, and investing in the people, trusting the people, and allowing the people to determine their future.”

State-sponsored suppression of political opposition is the first step for a polity's regression to political tyranny. Use of terror and torture without recourse to trial is the second. Use of extremist forces to kill political opponents is the third and final step to assure the death of democracy.

It's hard to be impartial to the man [Musharraf] who exiled me and threw my husband in prison.

However, if the U.S. government feels that Iraq is a threat to the American people, he must be disarmed. Dictatorships must be replaced with democracies.

I hope the White House will not be so distracted by Iraq that they forget about Pakistan.

One must never let fear stand in the way of justice.

She warned the U.S. government not to “bow to dictators in the name of stability.”

Bin Laden spent $10 million to unseat her government.

I watched the fanatical leaders of the Mujahedeen take control and form the Taliban. This created a Frankenstein.

The Islamic Street you see is the 'Television Street.' These are the streets of fanaticism.

Military dictatorship is strangling my people.

in some places, voter turnout exceeded 100 percent.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

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

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.