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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.

Benazir Bhutto

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
The best revenge is democracy.
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Best Democracy Revenge
I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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Gold Holocaust Trying
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.
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Badly Behave Believe Shocked
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Country October Return
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.
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Issues Leader Mother
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
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.
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Children Father Grief
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Home Return Want
I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Byzantine Political Rooms
Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Difficult Graveyard Jail
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
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.
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Birth Culture Gun Law Military
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support

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.

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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.

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