It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.
I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that's something that's unreported. I think it's partly my libertarian tendencies.
Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.
Democrats' definition of 'rich' - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.
When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory.
If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
