Democratic Quotes - Page 4

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  Karl Rove

  Past, Wish, Causes

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• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

  Madeleine Albright

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Long

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Time, Money

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• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  Irving Babbitt

  Light, People, Standards

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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• Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

  Jeb Bush

  Running, Believe, Cutting

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• The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Land, Way

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.23, University of Arkansas Press

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• If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Text Of Clinton Statement On Iraq", www.cnn.com. February 17, 1998.

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• One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Ethos

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.170, Best Books on

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• To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

  David Frum

  Democracy, Balance, India

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, War, Tyrants

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iraq, Democracy, Election

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• We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Japan, Ties, Support

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• While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Hymns, Differences, Important

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• We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

  Bob Graham

  Thinking, Iraq, Numbers

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• There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.

  Bob Graham

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Equality, Hymns

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Political, Politics

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• So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Republican, Reason

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