"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."

Government, Democracy

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"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."

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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."

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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."

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"In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente."

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"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."

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"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

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"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."

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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."

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"And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger."

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"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."

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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."

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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Barack Obama, American President

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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