Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Politics is mean as hell," said Shepard, a Democrat from a heavily Republican state. "It costs more and rewards less than it ever...
...lose something you don't have," said Long, the Democrat who replaced Dan Quayle when he received the vice presidential nomination. "I didn't lose. I just didn't get the same opportunity again...
Hours before President Clinton was to address the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- a group he helped found, once led and used as a springboard to the White House -- the group's current chairman, lame-duck Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, hammered Clinton for apparently drifting leftward. "While Bill Clinton has the mind of a new Democrat, he retains the heart of an old Democrat," McCurdy told compatriots. "The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and liberal agenda at the same time, to the great confusion of the American people." (McCurdy, who got drubbed in a Senate...
...mainstream. His doubts about Clinton's controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations in Burma, joined by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. He wants to withhold foreign aid from Colombia if Bogota shows favor to the Cali drug cartel, a position Kerry also embraces. He will probably call for close - scrutiny of arms sales by the Russians and the Chinese, a practice advocated by many...
...country's youngest Governor. However honored he may have been at the time, today he might not be particularly pleased by the example we provided to illustrate his ability to take courageous action and make others follow: "Instead of cutting taxes like everyone else," we wrote, "Democrat Clinton persuaded the assembly to raise them by $47 million...