Democratic Party
quotes and actions
"Let
every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe
to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
- President John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
"We
seek a free flow of information. We are not afraid to entrust the American people
with
unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
For a nation that is afraid to let
its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that
is afraid of its people."
-President John F. Kennedy
"America
did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented
America."
-President Jimmy Carter, January 14, 1981.
"What
we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq,
but we need a regime change in the United States.''
-Sen. John Kerry, D
"Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction remain a mystery and a conundrum. What are they,
where are they,
how dangerous are they? Or were they a manufactured excuse by an Administration
eager to seize
a country? It is time to answer these questions. It is time – past time
– for the Administration to level
with the American people, and it is time for the President to demand an accounting
from his
own Administration as to exactly how our nation was led down such a twisted
path to war."
-Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-WV, June 6, 2003
"The
American people deserve to know whether the President is making decisions about
war
and
peace based on reliable information. It's a disgrace to risk American lives
based on shoddy or
inaccurate intelligence, even worse to risk their lives based on intentionally
deceptive intelligence."
-Sen. Ted Kennedy, July, 2003
Q: Just
what is so funny about peace, love and understanding?
A: I have no idea. You tell me. Why don't you ring up the President
and ask him?
-Elvis Costello, September 2003
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