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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.

Benazir Bhutto

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Home Return Want
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Democracies Helping Others Teamwork
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
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
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Country October Return
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Military Privilege Want
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
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.
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Calling Different Years
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
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
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
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
I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Byzantine Political Rooms

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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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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