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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Benazir Bhutto

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
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
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
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
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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Democracy Government People
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Come Death Knows Much Young
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
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 am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
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
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
The best revenge is democracy.
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Best Democracy Revenge
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Country October Return

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