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Benazir Bhutto

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
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 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
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
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
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
I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
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Gold Holocaust Trying
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
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Country October Return
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Fough Peace Political War
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
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
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
I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Home Return Want
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
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Men Party Political
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Enemy Fighting War
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
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
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
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
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Agendas Aim Power
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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