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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, September 03, 2004

We don't like the UN, we just like to use them

Arnold Schwarzeneger's next movie may be him taking on the entire UN. Unless John Danforth can stop him:
At one point, seeking to define the beliefs of his political party, [Schwarzenegger] stated, "If you believe this country, not the United Nations, is the best hope for democracy, then you are a Republican."

Asked about the comment, Ambassador John Danforth, a former Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an Episcopal minister, told reporters the United States was "a bastion of democracy and is a great beacon for the world."

"But working through the U.N. and working with other countries and working on a multilateral basis is clearly the strategy that we have in our country and it is very important," Danforth said.