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16,301
1988
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As the only Arab nation to have formally made peace with Israel, it is reaping the benefits.
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16,302
1988
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[p.85] Our second priority is the need to develop and sustain democracies in Africa.
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16,303
1988
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Our third area of concern is humanitarian assistance, especially food aid, to African nations.
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16,304
1988
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Republicans condemn the cynical Marxist governments, especially in Ethiopia, which used planned starvation as a weapon of war and a tool for forced migration.
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16,305
1988
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Republicans call for an effective and coordinated policy that will promote equal rights and a peaceful transition to a truly representative constitutional form of government for all South Africans and the citizens of all nations throughout Africa.
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16,306
1988
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As we look forward to the 1990s, many countries will have achieved what only a few years ago seemed like unattainable goals.
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16,307
1988
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Those countries need to find ways to sustain those achievements.
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16,308
1988
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We commend the Reagan-Bush Administration for its courageous defense of human life in population programs around the world.
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16,309
1988
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We commend the Reagan-Bush Administration for its willingness to provide a measured response to terrorists such as Libya's Colonel Qadhafi.
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16,310
1988
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We affirm our determination to continue isolating his outlaw regime.
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16,311
1988
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We applaud the Reagan-Bush Administration's dispatch in implementing the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Anti-Terrorism Act of 1986.
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16,312
1988
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His ideas about strategic weapons are not only out of step with the thinking of the vast majority of Americans, but also in direct conflict with those of his vice presidential running mate and most of the leading Democrats on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees.
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16,313
1988
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Only by maintaining our strength and resolve can we secure peace in the years ahead.
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16,314
1988
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This underscores the need for deployment of the Strategic Defense System commonly known as SDI.
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16,315
1988
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We are committed to rapid and certain deployment of SDI as technologies permit, and we will determine the exact architecture of the system as technologies are tested and proven.
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16,316
1988
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His position contradicts the sponsorship by certain Democrats in Congress of a system to protect Americans from such missile attacks.
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16,317
1988
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We urge the universities of our country to continue to cooperate with the government and the private sector in establishing the SDI system.
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16,318
1988
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To end our historic reliance on massive nuclear retaliation, we need to develop a comprehensive strategic defense system.
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16,319
1988
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In the conventional area, we need to ensure that our ground, naval, and air forces are outfitted with the finest equipment and weapons that modern technology can provide;
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16,320
1988
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It is, however, essential that we press ahead, particularly given the growing proclivity in some quarters to use chemical and biological weapons.
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16,321
1988
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[p.93] Arms reduction can be an important aspect of our national policy only when agreements enhance the security of the United States and its allies.
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16,322
1988
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In particular, we will not compromise plans for the research, testing, or the rapid and certain deployment of SDI.
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16,323
1988
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We will reject naive and dangerous proposals such as those offered by [p.94] the Democrat nominee to ban the testing of weapons and delivery systems.
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16,324
1988
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Those simplistic and destabilizing proposals are designed only for domestic political appeal and would actually jeopardize achievement of stable arms reductions.
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16,325
1988
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We applaud those who have pioneered America's rendezvous with the future.
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16,326
1988
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We urge Congress to adjust the budget process to protect the Coast Guard appropriation, thereby removing the temptation to siphon its funds and personnel into other programs and ensuring improved coordination of government agencies in our nation's war against drugs.
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16,327
1988
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They have not only helped preserve the peace, but also have made America's standard of living the envy of the world.
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16,328
1988
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Our nation will benefit greatly from patent royalties and technological [p.98] progress that will be developed through spinoffs, especially in the fields of micro-miniaturization and super-conductivity, which are vital in order for U.S. industry to compete in the world.
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16,329
1988
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Most particularly we call for submission of a two-year budget for defense to help us meet these goals.
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16,330
1988
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We commend the United States Armed Forces for their leadership in proving the utility of testing active duty personnel and applicants for disease and substance abuse.
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16,331
1988
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Arms reductions can contribute to our national security only if they are designed to reduce the risk of war and result in greater stability.
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16,332
1992
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We Republicans saw clearly the dangers of collectivism: not only the military threat, but the deeper threat to the souls of people bound in dependence.
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16,333
1992
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Two years ago, President Bush described the key elements of what be called "our new paradigm," a fresh approach that aims to put new ideas to work in the service of enduring principlesprinciples we upheld throughout the long twilight struggle, principles George Bush has acted decisively to advance.
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16,334
1992
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This is the ultimate agenda of contemporary socialism under all its masks: to liberate youth from traditional family values by replacing family functions with bureaucratic social services.
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16,335
1992
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We applaud the fine example of family values and family virtue as lived by the President and the First Lady.
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16,336
1992
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We urge State legislatures to explore ways to promote marital stability.
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16,337
1992
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Republicans call for a complete restoration, in real dollars, to its original value.
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16,338
1992
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Our ambitious vision for America works, however, only in a society of well-educated citizens.
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16,339
1992
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Scienceand human wisdomhave advanced, however, and we have met this crisis not only with a massive commitment of resources but also with a personal determination on the part of the President.
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16,340
1992
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We applaud the President's initiatives to require the involvement of more women in clinical trials and to create within NIH a center to combat breast and cervical cancer.
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16,341
1992
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We also call for expanded research on various diseases, common to both men and women, but whose effects on women have yet to be determined.
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16,342
1992
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Some would have us believe that obscenity and pornography have no social impact.
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16,343
1992
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We call on federal agencies to halt the sale, under government auspices, of pornographic materials.
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16,344
1992
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It frees poor people not only from want but also from government control.
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16,345
1992
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[p.20] It bought a horrendous expansion of dependence, especially among mothers and children.
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16,346
1992
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Republican Governors and legislators in several States have already launched dramatic reforms, especially with workfare and leanfare.
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16,347
1992
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The Democrats have forsaken this solemn pledge.
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16,348
1992
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Instead of protecting society from hardened criminals, they blame society and refuse to hold accountable for their actions individuals who have chosen to engage in violent and criminal conduct.
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16,349
1992
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It threatens everyone, but especially the very young, the elderly, the weak.
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16,350
1992
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It is a travesty that some American children have to sleep in bathtubs for protection from stray bullets.
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16,351
1992
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We pledge an all out fight against it, especially within the political machines that control many of our major cities.
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16,352
1992
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This reflects our past, when some newcomers fled intolerance;
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16,353
1992
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some sought prosperity;
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16,354
1992
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some came as slaves.
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16,355
1992
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Specifically, we will increase the size of the Border Patrol in order to meet the increasing need to stop illegal immigration and we will equip the Border Patrol with the tools, technologies, and structures necessary to secure the border.
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16,356
1992
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We also seek to reduce the amount of land owned or controlled by the government, especially in the western States.
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16,357
1992
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We affirm the right of individuals to form, join, or assist labor organizations to bargain collectively, consistent with State laws.
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16,358
1992
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Communism and other forms of planned economies lie in the ash heap of history, defeated not only by our military strength but by the force of our ideas-democracy and free enterprise.
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16,359
1992
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We understand that material gain improves life only if it lifts us all to pursue higher ends: self-respect, work and study, a decent life and future for our children, and a useful old age.
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16,360
1992
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The most dramatic change in the tax code in our lifetime is one that has never been explicitly enacted by Congress or reported as a specific news event.
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16,361
1992
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We call for a permanent moratorium until our regulatory reforms are fully in place.
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16,362
1992
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State programs could only benefit from federal efforts.
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16,363
1992
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Especially in this Columbian year, we hail the President's decision "to return to the moon, this time to stay, and then a journey to tomorrow, a mission to Mars."
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16,364
1992
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Some in their Leadership have resigned in well-earned disgrace.
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16,365
1992
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It has permitted rogue prosecutors to spend tremendous amounts to hound some of the Nation's finest public servants.
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16,366
1992
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To accomplish change, we need a change in Congress.
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16,367
1992
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Campaign financing does need reform.
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16,368
1992
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It does not need a hand in the public's pocketbook.
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16,369
1992
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To the same end, we will strengthen the role of political parties to [p.46] remove pressure on candidates to spend so much time soliciting funds.
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16,370
1992
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Republicans are proud to have played a leading role in this transformation, especially through the annual Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which recognizes companies that best represent the principles of Quality.
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16,371
1992
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We applaud President Bush' s initiative to allow States and localities to privatize facilities built with federal aid.
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16,372
1992
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We also call for greater use of judicial sanctions to stop frivolous lawsuits.
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16,373
1992
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We call for changes to the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law to limit its use in civil litigation by requiring proof of all elements by clear and convincing proof.
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16,374
1992
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We will ban abuses of the discovery process used to intimidate opponents and drive up their costs.
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16,375
1992
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Some of the problems in our legal system are rooted in a declining sense of, and respect for, individual responsibility.
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16,376
1992
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Only one-half of one percent of the federal budget is now spent on those programs.
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16,377
1992
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Accordingly, prior to the implementation of a recovery plan for a species declared to be endangered, we will require the Congress to affirm the priority of the species on the endangered list and the specific measures to be taken in any recovery plan.
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16,378
1992
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When Iraq's dictator moved to seize the world's energy lifeline by [p.54] controlling the Persian Gulf, George Bush did more than liberate Kuwait.
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16,379
1992
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The United States has some of the richest mineral resources in the world.
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16,380
1992
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We applaud the President' s executive order that will assist communities to privatize government-controlled ventures, such as airports and toll roads.
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16,381
1992
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At the same time, we applaud our President for personally confronting the international bureaucrats at the Rio Conference.
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16,382
1992
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Some in our own country still refuse to face those facts.
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16,383
1992
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We applaud the wisdom of the First Congress for incorporating this guarantee of individual liberty in the Bill of Rights.
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16,384
1992
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It was a frightening era, in some ways the worst of times.
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16,385
1992
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Only the naive believe that history is an inevitable tide or a series of accidents.
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16,386
1992
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Today, thanks in large part to President Bush's initiatives, nuclear weapons are found in only four countries of the former Soviet Unionnot fourteen.
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16,387
1992
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President Bush, trusting the military commanders he had chosen, was Commander-in-Chief of one of the finest achievements in the distinguished history of our armed forces.
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16,388
1992
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To the peoples of those nations, and to the Russian people in particular, we declare: If you stay on the path to freedom, we stand ready to help.
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16,389
1992
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We rejoice especially with the people of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, whose nationhood we have always upheld in law and in our hearts.
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16,390
1992
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We condemn those responsible for the carnage there and call for an immediate international investigation of atrocities.
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16,391
1992
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We applaud the President's leadership in fostering unprecedented direct talks between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
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16,392
1992
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As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate interim self-government, no party will be required to commit itself to any specific final outcome of direct negotiations.
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16,393
1992
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We commend President Bush for the decisive military action that led to the end of the corrupt Noriega regime and freedom for democratically-minded Panamanians.
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16,394
1992
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We need to maintain the relationship with China so that we can effectively encourage such reform.
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16,395
1992
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We condemn all violence against the innocent and applaud those who seek reconciliation to create a new, democratic South Africa.
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16,396
1992
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We will banish the threat of nuclear annihilation from the face of the earthnot by savaging our military, as some Democrats might insist, but by building on the historic diplomatic achievements of Presidents Bush and Reagan.
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16,397
1992
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We will renew and strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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16,398
1992
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they heeded our call to arms.
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16,399
1992
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The danger of nuclear proliferation is real, especially with the dispersal of nuclear know-how after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.
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16,400
1992
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Republicans call for a controlled defense drawdown, not a freefall.
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