Benazir Bhutto Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Life, Daughter, Father

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Father, Rain, Thinking

  "'I never asked for power'". Interview with Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

• Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Children, Father, Grief

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

• My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jobs, Father, Diplomats

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