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"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"The problem of finding a collection of "wise men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."
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"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
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"The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."
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"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened."
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"It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe."
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"It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe."
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"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in."
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"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
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"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress."
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"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
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"Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too."
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"Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II."
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"It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question."
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