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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
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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Book Jail Way
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
The best revenge is democracy.
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Best Democracy Revenge
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
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
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
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
[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
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.
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Country Fighting Justice
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Asia Government Military
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
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.
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Foundation Justice All Liberty
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
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.
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Mother Revenge Son
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious

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