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Benazir Bhutto

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
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
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Asia Government Military
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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Book Jail Way
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.
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Bhutto Guarantees Way
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
It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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Able Country Justice
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
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
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
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
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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Freedom Fundamneatl Giving Needs Wish
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Beginning Democracy Ends Freedom
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Enemy Fighting War
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.
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Diplomats Father Jobs
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Fough Peace Political War
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
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 am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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Believe Thinking War
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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Ministers Prime Want
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.
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Father Good Happen Rain Thinking
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

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