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WHERE WE STAND
We don't need polls to tell us who we are.
We know where we stand, and we reaffirm the enduring principles that guide
us.
In keeping with our party's grand tradition, we share Jefferson's belief in individual liberty and responsibility. We endorse Jackson's credo of equal opportunity for all, and special privileges for none.
We embrace Roosevelt's thirst for innovation, and Truman's sense in the
uncommon sense of common men and women. We carry on Kennedy's summons
to civic duty and public service, Johnson's passion for social justice,
and Carter's commitment to human rights.
We believe the promise of America is equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
We believe the Democratic Party's fundamental mission is to expand opportunity,
not government.
We believe in the politics of inclusion. Our party has historically been
the means by which aspiring Americans from every background have achieved
equal rights and full citizenship.
We believe that America must remain energetically engaged in the worldwide
struggle for individual liberty, human rights, and prosperity, not retreat
from the world.
We believe that the U.S. must maintain a strong and capable defense,
which reflects dramatic changes in the world, but which recognizes that
the collapse of communism does not mean the end of danger.
We believe that economic growth is the prerequisite to expanding opportunity
for everyone. The free market, regulated in the public interest, is the
best engine of general prosperity.
We believe the right way to rebuild America's economic security is to
invest in the skills and ingenuity of our people, and to expand trade,
not restrict it.
We believe that all claims on government are not equal. Our leaders must
reject demands that are less worthy, and hold to clear governing priorities.
We believe a progressive tax system is the only fair way to pay for government.
We believe in preventing crime and punishing criminals, not in explaining
away their behavior.
We believe the purpose of social welfare is to bring the poor into the
nation's economic mainstream, not to maintain them in dependence.
We believe in the protection of civil rights and the broad movement of
minorities into America's economic and cultural mainstream, not racial,
gender or ethnic separatism. We will not tolerate another decade in which
the only civil rights movement is backward.
We believe government should respect individual liberty and stay out
of our private lives and personal decisions.
We believe in the moral and cultural values that most American's share:
liberty of conscience, individual responsibility, tolerance of difference,
the imperative of work, the need for faith, and the importance of family.
Finally we believe that American citizenship entails responsibility as well as rights, and we mean to ask our citizens to give something back to their communities and their country.
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