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On the recordAugust 18, 1991
The taste of democracy is such that people aren't going to regurgitate it, that they want it to go forward.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, on the Attempted Coup in the Soviet Union

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