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

… at hand and the alternatives and the consequences. Your function is vital to the viability of democracy. Without a free press democracy won't work, and all of our other rights would be in jeopardy. Thomas Jefferson is often … to work with me to support our peace proposal and not to desert those who are struggling for democracy against the Communists. Together, we can prevent a crisis from happening. And I'd like …

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Remarks at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana

… make up the doers, the dreamers, and the lifebuilders without which our glorious experiment in democracy would have failed. This convention brings back so many memories to a fellow like me. I … our Armed Forces. We liberated Grenada from the Communists and helped return that island to democracy. We struck a firm blow against Libyan terrorism. We've seen the growth of democracy in 90 percent of Latin America . The Soviets have begun to pull out of Afghanistan . …

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Remarks at a Reagan-Bush Rally in Millersville, Pennsylvania

… hill -- it's more than fitting that we meet here in a cradle -- one of the cradles of American democracy. You are a peace-loving people. But the citizens of Lancaster have always been in the … But we know that the Sandinistas immediately began to persecute the genuine believers in democracy, to export terror. They went on to slaughter the Miskito Indians, abuse and deport …

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Remarks at a Luncheon Hosted by the Heritage Foundation

… fighters, there would be no Arias peace plan, there would be no negotiations and no hope for democracy in Nicaragua . An entrenched, hostile, Communist regime in Nicaragua would be an … waiting game. They will have no incentive to negotiate, no incentive to make real steps toward democracy. If we're serious about this peace process, we must keep the freedom fighters alive and …

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The President's News Conference

… that the best way, it is argued, to oppose the Communist insurgency is to back the forces of democracy. What about that? The President. Well, we're backing the forces of democracy, and the people there are voting, and they're holding their own election, and the only … tell you we hope we can be of help as this interim government goes forward to try to institute democracy there in Haiti. Our participation in Duvalier's leaving was that of providing an …

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Proclamations, April 4, 1983 (04/04/1983)

… lands who suffer from political repression and injustice; to deter aggression by strengthening democracy around the globe; and to work tirelessly toward a world without war. Those who have …

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Remarks at a White House Meeting With 1984 Reagan-Bush Campaign Supporters

… rebuilding of our military. We had boldly restated the fundamental, moral difference between democracy and communism. And in 1983 we had begun the Strategic Defense Initiative, an initiative …

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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson of Sweden

… whom Americans share many fundamental values: We're both deeply committed to the system of democracy; we are both committed to the protection of the fundamental rights of the individual; …

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The President's News Conference

… I have to call on you. I talked to your boss the other day. Q. Thank you. He enjoyed it. Democracy Project Sir, I want to ask you about a proposal that you are backing that's before the … now. I don't think they've passed it quite yet, but they're about to. It's that project for democracy. It would mean, I believe, that we would provide taxpayers' money and private sector … is for people to go and be the same kind of missionaries and see if they cannot explain democracy. One of the first meetings we had in connection with that was here in this room in …

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Written Responses to Questions Submitted by France Soir Magazine

… 20 years -- and it is one we share with others -- must be the preservation and promotion of democracy. The solidarity of the Atlantic alliance has provided Europe the longest period of … system is increasingly seen as the most effective instrument for growth, and everywhere democracy is the inspiration and aspiration of mankind. In the past 4 years, we have reinforced …

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