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"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
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"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees."

"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard."

"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."

"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."

"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
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"The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department."

"Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism."

"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."

"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."

"Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes."

"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."

"The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire."
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