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Remarks to the People of Honduras

… concrete proposals for a comprehensive peace throughout your region. Your transition to democracy answered those who argue that freedom is a luxury that struggling countries cannot …

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Remarks in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Following a Meeting With President Jose Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala

… assured the President that the United States is committed to support his efforts to restore democracy and to address the root causes of this violent insurgency. I know he wants to improve …

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Toast at a Dinner for Williamsburg Economic Summit Conference Participants at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Virginia

… were linked by a multitude of mutual interests and by a shared commitment to freedom and democracy. Williamsburg, as a site, was the site of the first representative assembly and the …

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Statement on United States Participation in the 40th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission

… Dick Schifter has spoken with eloquence and pride of America's commitment to liberty, democracy, and human rights. And he has always insisted on standards of fairness and balance in …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Members of the Council of the Americas

… two great winds are sweeping across Latin America: the wind of free enterprise and the wind of democracy. They are warm and nurturing winds that carry with them the gentle rains of hope for … of the next century in Latin America is to be as powerful and relentless as the Amazon, then democracy in that vast region must become as towering as the Andes. Just as the Amazon rises in … democracies. As the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa said recently: ``For the first time democracy or incipient democratic forms of government are being established in the countries of …

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Remarks to Citizens in St. George's, Grenada

… with these Caribbean leaders. We stand before you as friends who share a fundamental belief in democracy. Our commitment to humane and representative government is stronger than any tyrant's … Your Prime Minister and these other elected leaders are testimony that the spirit of democracy is assuming its rightful role as the great unifier of the people. Democracy is based on respect for the rights and dignity of every person, whatever his or her …

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Toasts at the State Dinner for President Jose Napoleon Duarte Fuentes of El Salvador

… fought the brutality and repression of left and right, has come to symbolize the struggle for democracy in this hemisphere. I have little doubt that our forefathers, who sacrificed so much to … so that other countries can also have what you have dear in this country, which is freedom and democracy. Let me be simple and ask you to just raise your head and give a prayer for my people …

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Written Responses to Questions Submitted by El Pais of Spain

… regional peace and stability. One of the most important contributions Spain makes in fostering democracy is the example it has set over the past decade. Let me note, by the way, that when I took office 4 years ago only one of the five countries in Central America was a democracy. Now there are three democracies and one country well on the way back to democratic …

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Proclamation 5508 -- Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1986

… of our free market economy makes it unique among the countries of the world. The spirit of our democracy affirms that unhindered opportunity for all Americans is essential to our economic …

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Remarks to Reporters Announcing the Central American Peace Initiative

… this administration has always supported regional diplomatic initiatives aimed at peace and democracy. The aspirations of our Central American neighbors, the democratic resistance in …

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