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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

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Departure Misery Voice
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Age Intellectual Religion
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Calling Different Years
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Come Death Knows Much Young
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Beginning Democracy Ends Freedom
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Awesome Country People Power
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Fighting War
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Lying President Ruth Telling
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

People Return Support
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

Issues Leader Mother
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 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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Fighting Justice
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Democracy Support
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Men Unity
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Fough Peace Political War

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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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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