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Benazir Bhutto

Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Military Pakistan
Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Country Heart Lying People
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
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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Calling Different Years
I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Byzantine Political Rooms
My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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Accomplish Democracy Generation Goal
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
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Opportunity People Rights
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
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Fough Peace Political War
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
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
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Military Privilege Want
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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Done Mean Political
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
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
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Country October Return
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
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
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
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support

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