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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.

Benazir Bhutto

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Military Privilege Want
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
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
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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Age Intellectual Religion
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
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Men Party Political
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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Issues Leader Mother
The best revenge is democracy.
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Best Democracy Revenge
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
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
[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
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
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
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Military Pakistan
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
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Departure Misery Voice
Democracy is the best revenge.
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Democracy Freedom Revenge
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Beginning Democracy Ends Freedom
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.
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Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Democracies Helping Others Teamwork
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 Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
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California Technology Valleys
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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Freedom Fundamneatl Giving Needs Wish
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political

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