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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto, born on June 21, 1953, and died on December 27, 2007, was a prominent Pakistani politician who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan twice. She was the first female Prime Minister in the history of Pakistan and came from a political dynasty.

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“The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.”

People Wells Matter Young Simple Answers Feminism Pride Resent Bhutto

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“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.”

People Giving I Can Different Able Choices Next Results Situation Leader Taken One Thing Election Ministers Prime Contests Prime Minister Pakistan Banned Already Taken

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“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.”

People Thinking Want Giving Reason Happens Father Water Economy Picks Rain Good Things Things Happen Crops Rain Water Good Rain

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“Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.”

“I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. 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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“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. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.”

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“Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.”

People Needs Social Neglect Dictatorship

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“Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.”

People Needs Government Democracy Authority Planning Addresses Participants Basic Needs

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“The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.”

People Ends Example Revolution Vote Protest Dictatorship Orange Ukraine Good Examples Right To Vote

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“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”

People Humans Turns Opportunity Democracy Rights Economic Inspired Human Rights Extremism

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“I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.”

People Knows Girl President Saws Prison Thrown Shy Pakistan Harvard Oxford Shy Girl

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“Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.”

People Political Social Religious Responsibility Environment Welfare Fuel Dictatorship Desperation Social Responsibility Hopelessness Neglected Extremism Religious Extremism Political Extremism

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“I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, "You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me." It makes me weepy ... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.”

People Thinking Knows Want Happens Lasts Remember Mother Father Waiting Meetings Tonight Kill Me Fear Of Death

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“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.”

People Government Opportunity Progress Security Ordinary Dignity Ordinary People

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“Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.”

People Given Support Return Ballots

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“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.”

People Mean America Saws Policy Democratic Miraculous Harvard

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“In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.”

People Remember Nations Social Race Teaching Color Judging Bases Islam Injustice Gender Islamic Distinction Humankind Sole Criteria Taboo Piety Social Taboos

Book:Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996

Source: Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996

About the Author

Born: June 21, 1953
Died: December 27, 2007
Known for: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Quotes: 84

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