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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.

Benazir Bhutto

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Ministers Prime Want
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Fighting War
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Dangles Good People Poverty Time Tribal World
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Calling Different Years
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Lying President Ruth Telling
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Mother Revenge Son
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Development Dream Life Pro
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Men Unity
It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Done Mean Political
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Giving Matter Self
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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Age Intellectual Religion
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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