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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

Benazir Bhutto

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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Dying People Thinking
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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Believe Thinking War
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
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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Father Good Happen Rain Thinking
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
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Departure Misery Voice
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
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
The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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Courage Democracy Fighting
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
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious

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