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Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

… of American States, would support them if their goal was these four things: of promoting democracy, of immediate elections, of a concern for human rights. And the Sandinistas acceded to … countries that are already democracies. Honduras has taken that step; Coast Rica, the oldest democracy of all. And all of them are plagued by radicals in their midst who are encouraged by … a government that is trying to reverse the course, the history of the country and bring about democracy and human rights and the things of that kind, and you have guerrillas that are making …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Area Junior High School Students

… for the world. This is true not just in the many countries that have turned from despotism to democracy these last years, it's also true even where it's least apparent. It's remarkable to … feet of our Founding Fathers when they try to counterfeit the practices and institutions of democracy in order to claim legitimacy for their ruling their people. Dictators today from … by the rest of the world. But America 's world leadership goes well beyond the tide toward democracy. We also find that more countries than ever before are following America 's …

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the United States League of Savings Associations in New Orleans, Louisiana

… Difficult choices lie ahead. They'll require political courage. No one ever said that democracy was easy. But we do know that democracy works if we make it work. So once again, we're asking for your help. We need your …

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Atlanta, Georgia

… Since Tuesday morning, Washington has been filled with the voices of the people, the voices of democracy. They've been ringing throughout the Capitol. The Congress and the White House have … In the process, we'll return the citizen to his rightful place in the scheme of our democracy, and that place is close to his government. We must never forget it. It is not the …

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Remarks in New York, New York , Before the United Nations General Assembly Special Session Devoted to Disarmament

… United States has fought four wars in my lifetime. In each, we struggled to defend freedom and democracy. We were never the aggressors. America's strength and, yes, her military power have been a force for peace, not conquest; for democracy, not despotism; for freedom, not tyranny. Watching, as I have, succeeding generations …

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Interview With Lou Cannon and David Hoffman of the Washington Post

… in return for that, they had given a program to the OAS of what their goals were, and it was democracy; it was a pluralistic government and human rights taken care of and freedom of the … view themselves as the government. They're an interim force, and they want to now establish democracy and a government that represents the will of the people. And we're perfectly willing …

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Remarks at a White House Luncheon for Elected Republican Women Officials

… You in State legislatures and other State and local offices are on the frontlines of democracy, putting your beliefs into practice close to the people. We look on you as leaders who …

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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for King Hussein I of Jordan

… at the side of the democracies in the contest between fear-inspiring communism and popular democracy.'' Your Majesty, during your reign you have demonstrated the wisdom of your grandfather …

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Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union - 1987

… to see how this nation responds. Today over 90 percent of the people of Latin America live in democracy. Democracy is on the march in Central and South America. Communist Nicaragua is the odd man out -- …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Regional Editors and Broadcasters

… the goals of your revolution, and they were given. And the goals were: pluralistic society, democracy, freedom of speech, free labor unions, freedom of press -- all the things that go with a democracy. They have never kept one of those promises. As I say, they ousted the rest, and it …

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