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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

Benazir Bhutto

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
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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Book Long Pakistan
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Country Dictatorship Military Yoke
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Military Pakistan
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
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
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women

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