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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

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Competent Contests Election
It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Able Country Justice
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Islam Men Opportunity
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Ministers Prime Want
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Book Jail Way
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Giving Matter Self
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Beholder Eye Hijab
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Country Dictatorship Military Yoke
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Military Privilege Want
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Badly Behave Believe Shocked
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Example Orange People Vote
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracy Government People

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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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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