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… principles we cherish and proclaim: to promote prosperity, to defend freedom, to help build democracy and respect for human rights, to help alleviate suffering, and to protect our friends … nowhere has the linkage between foreign assistance and U.S. national interests -- and between democracy and economic opportunity -- been better illustrated than in Latin America and the … of the right. But as the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America found, electoral democracy and political dialogue -- not externally imposed "power sharing" between guerrillas and …
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… priority for the next four years. The top priority is to help bring peace and stability and democracy to central America, and certainly, the Soviet-Cuban-Nicaraguan influence is a main … Government that move in the direction of more ·o•penness ancl a _g reater prospect of genuine democracy. • The situation is far from what we would like, and we don't mind saying so. But it's … principles we cherish and proclaim: to promote prosperity, to defend freedom, to help build democracy and respect for human rights, to help alleviate suffering, and to protect our friends …
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… Lusinchi, an individual whose strength of conviction and personal bravery helped give birth to democracy in his country. Tonight we honor you, Mr. President, for what you've done, for what … for political freedom. He was part of it. As a young man, he committed himself to the cause of democracy. He was arrested and tortured by the dictatorship. And, Mr. President, I'm told the … democratic government in Venezuela. Commemorating that, you said, ``We have discovered that democracy and liberty go together inextricably together.'' It was fitting that last year was also …
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… seen and heard demonstrate the magnitude of a sophisticated Communist effort to undermine democracy in this hemisphere and to deceive us in the process. These rifles, landmines, grenade … placed in the hands of those who would eliminate liberty, wreak economic havoc, and destroy democracy by forces opposed to our very way of life. The regime which has built -- now, I was …
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… the population would support his aims and, in particular, would support the establishment of a democracy for the first time in Iraq's history. He realises that a democratic system of … of government. The Party is an independent political movement embodying all the tenets of true democracy, particularly those based on human rights and freedom of the individual. It owes …
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… been no arms control agreement, would you consider that a failure? Or is it perhaps a test of democracy to be able to not make agreements, to say that's not satisfactory? SHULTZ: There is … we are seeing in our hemisphere is the emergence on a very wide scale of a strong pattern of democracy. Today, over 90 percent of the people in our hemisphere live under conditions of democracy or of countries who are very far advanced in a process moving toward democracy. In the …
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… Colonies that made possible the independence of your great nation, model of liberty and democracy, has filled us with pride. The Nicaraguan combatants, in spite of their tremendous …
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… comrades in the noble task of maintaining peace and in translating constructive dreams of democracy into reality." Mr. Prime Minister, as the leader of one of our country's closest … s'l:l~port of_ near-lyr ·3 yea-E& a~;:, Pakistan is making great strides in its transition to democracy. This progress is all the more remarkable because, even in a volatile environment, it … Your outstanding economic achievements and the progress you've made in your transition to democracy is even more impressive -- some might say amazing -- in light of the defense and …
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… to every human being without exception. Today freedom and the desire for human rights and democracy are on the march everywhere, and Gandhi's example and inspiration offer us good reason … to every human being without exception. Today freedom and the desire for human rights and democracy are on the march everywhere, and Gandhi's example and inspiration offer us good reason … to every' human being without exception. Today freedom and the ~esire for human rights ( and democracy are on the march ef~rywhere, and Gandhi's I example and inspiration offer rs good …
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… personally fought so valiantly. The values for which we struggled -- independence, liberty, democracy, justice, equality -- are engraved in our constitutions and embodied in our peoples' … from the Philippines, a part of Asia which has been molded along the principles of American democracy. We learned to love these ideals and principles, and we lost a million of our people … of our fortunes, our lives. But more important of all, our honor will stand for the ideals of democracy that is our legacy from the United States of America. I did not come to burden you …
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