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Toast at a White House Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors

… also remembered that part of federalism is recognizing that the States are laboratories of democracy. And so, we've tried to get Congress to follow the lead of the States in one of the …

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Remarks on Departure for the Venice Economic Summit

… that great continent for over two centuries all of its people would have to know freedom, democracy, and justice. And so we extended both to allies and former enemies a helping hand, a …

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Toasts at the State Dinner for Prime Minister Jacques Chirac of France

… were able to take almost for granted certain shared values. Yet these values -- liberty, democracy, the dignity of each individual -- these values are sacred. And nowhere are they more … diversity. In Africa, she's fighting attempts of destabilization. In Latin America, defending democracy against dictatorship. In the Middle East, she wishes to engage in dialog with all …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Administration Supporters

… And this is not the time to backtrack. And there's someplace else we shouldn't backtrack. Democracy is on the march throughout the hemisphere. Ten years ago, only a third of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean lived in democratic countries or countries moving towards democracy; today 90 percent do. In Central America, only Nicaragua stands against the democratic … last 6 months that changes one basic truth: For our nation and for the cause of freedom and democracy around the world, America must stand by the freedom fighters in Nicaragua. Our crusade …

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Remarks on the Occasion of Alfred M. Landon's 100th Birthday in Topeka, Kansas

… most of them. Along the way, he's found time to stand for the American values of liberty, democracy, and opportunity. And no one is more the living soul of Kansas , which to me means …

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Remarks at a Luncheon for Members of Vote America

… does work. But you also want them to know something else that soldier knew, and that is that democracy takes time and personal effort. And that's why we're dedicated to the goals of Vote …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Hispanic-American News Media

… true everywhere in the Americas. Immigrants know better than anyone how precious freedom and democracy are. And in the past 7 years, there's been a democratic explosion throughout the … insurgency, spreading hegemonously across this hemisphere, although many countries desire democracy? And what went wrong? Was it the Congress? Was it no support from other Latin American … do you think has been the major cause that has prevented your administration to help establish democracy in Cuba, specifically? The President. Well, I think one of the things we've been …

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Scholars Awards

… of our civilization about God and humanity, teachings that make ideas like human dignity, democracy, the rule of law and representative institutions possible. And it's why all of us can … our whole way of life and what it is based upon, to speak for freedom, to argue the cause for democracy, and always to bear in mind those fundamental, moral distinctions between systems of …

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Radio Address to the Nation on National Security and Administration Goals

… here the Congress has crucial decisions to make about whether our nation will truly support democracy and help resist tyranny in a region so close to our own borders. My own commitment …

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Toast at the State Dinner in Ottawa, Canada

… and a host of other cooperative endeavors, we continue to stand together for freedom and democracy and for the economic advancement of mankind. Just as the frontier once stretched before …

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