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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
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"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."
"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."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
"Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud."
"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
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