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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Benazir Bhutto

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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Badly Behave Believe Shocked
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.
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Enemy Men Unity
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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Grace Home Nice
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
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
The best revenge is democracy.
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Best Democracy Revenge
I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Byzantine Political Rooms
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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Men People Religion
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
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
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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Country Democracy Freedom Of Speech
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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Development Dream Life Pro
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Home Return Want
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Military Pakistan
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
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
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
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
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.
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Age Intellectual Religion
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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Birth Culture Gun Law Military
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
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

California Technology Valleys

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