News coverage of political history from 1990-1999


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Abortion     Alan Keyes: Only exception is to preserve life of mother.

Budget & Economy     Hillary Clinton: 2000: Eight years of a great economy is not enough.     Dick Cheney: Don’t fund domestic priorities by cutting defense.     Robert Reich: Focus on inflation & deficit means focus on needs of wealthy.     Dick Cheney: Investment in defense brings economic growth.

Crime     Ralph Nader: Product liability suits are a pillar of democracy.

Drugs     Richard Nixon: Don't let elite casual drug users off the hook.     Steve Forbes: Societal self-help is like 1820s Temperance Movement.     Ralph Nader: Solution to addiction is information, not prohibition.

Education     Zell Miller: $1B more for education.     Dick Cheney: Supports certifying military retirees as teachers.

Energy & Oil     Cato Institute: Energy production by market forces not government planners.

Families & Children     Jerry Brown: 1978: legalized midwifery despite Cal. Medical Association.

Foreign Policy     Richard Nixon: Tiananmen repression did not wipe away progressive reforms.     Richard Nixon: Tiananmen massacre inexcusable, but continue China relations.     Richard Nixon: US is not a declining power.     Richard Nixon: Western aid premature until Soviets overhaul economy.     Richard Nixon: Top NATO priority: East Europe postcommunist recovery.     Dick Cheney: Supported F-16 sales to Taiwan.

Free Trade     Ralph Nader: Multinational corporations challenge democracy.     Dick Cheney: Worldwide market thrives only with peaceful stability.

Government Reform     Bill Bradley: Amendment: political spending is not free speech.     Ralph Nader: Fight "Tweedledum & Tweedledee" with "None of the Above".

Health Care     Ralph Nader: Tobacco is the world's worst air pollutant.

Homeland Security     Orrin Hatch: Voted against base closings; require Congress in future.     Gary Bauer: Expand NATO; stay engaged abroad; stop defense cuts.     Alan Keyes: No women in combat.     Al Gore: Voted for B2 & Seawolf.

Principles & Values     Bill Clinton: 1991: Led "New Democrats" who rejected liberal orthodoxy.     Hillary Clinton: 1992: All marriages have issues; our issues are our business.     Ross Perot: 1992: Appropriated Bill Clinton's theme of "change".     Dick Cheney: Exert leadership toward post-nuclear world.     Ralph Nader: Forever an optimist to improve society.     Gary Bauer: It's the "American Century" because of America's values.     Dan Quayle: Murphy Brown episode was about helping single mothers.     Ralph Nader: Power corrupts, unless it fears loss of power.     Dick Cheney: Prosperity & security go hand in hand.     Ralph Nader: Sacrificed personal life because civic work is a joy.     Ralph Nader: Struggle against commercialism based on priceless things.

Tax Reform     Steve Forbes: Bible has 700,000 words; Tax Code has 7 million. Junk it.

Technology     Bill Bradley: For deregulation; consumer rights; limit media ownership.     Dan Quayle: Get NASA out of doldrums & to Mars by 2019.     Bill Bradley: Voted for V-Chip & telecomm self-censorship.

Welfare & Poverty     Howard Phillips: Deconstruct the humanist-globalist welfare state.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Al Gore Democrat Alan Keyes Republican Bill Bradley Democratic Senator (Former) New Jersey Bill Clinton Democrat Cato Institute Dan Quayle Dick Cheney Former Republican Vice President Gary Bauer Hillary Clinton Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Phillips Jerry Brown California Democratic Governor Orrin Hatch Republican Sr Senator (retiring 2018) Utah Ralph Nader Green Richard Nixon Robert Reich Massachusetts Former Dem. Challenger 2002, and Cabinet Sec'y Ross Perot Steve Forbes Zell Miller Former Democratic Senator; retired 2004 Georgia