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Benazir Bhutto

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
So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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Dangles Good People Poverty Time Tribal World
[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.
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Lying President Ruth Telling
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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Democracy Government People
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support
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
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 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
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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Freedom Inspirational Inspiring
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
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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Giving People Taken
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
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Beginning Democracy Ends Freedom

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