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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.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Agendas Aim Power
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
Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Difficult Graveyard Jail
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Foundation Justice All Liberty
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
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Dying People Thinking
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Opportunity People Rights
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
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.
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Democracies Democracy Support
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
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
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
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Political Religion Religious
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Mean Needs Peace
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election

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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