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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

We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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Islam Men Opportunity
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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Grace Home Nice
The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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Country Fighting Justice
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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Democracy Government People
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.
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Giving People Taken
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
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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Awesome Country People Power
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.
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Dangles Good People Poverty Time Tribal World
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.
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Giving Matter Self
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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Development Dream Life Pro
Democracy is the best revenge.
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Democracy Freedom Revenge
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
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.
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Enemy Men Unity
It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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Done Mean Political

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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