The FDP's social message sounds more like George Bush's compassionate conservatism than German social democracy.
Mandela will always be remembered and honoured by all mankind as one of its greatest liberators, a wise, courageous and compassionate leader, and an icon of true democracy.
Sandburg held that both Lincoln and FDR were representative of the voice of the American people, and in many respects the biography expresses his faith in the workings of democracy through the office of a compassionate, gifted leader.
But in order to survive we must find a way forward -- embracing democracy, educating for democracy, nurturing engaged, compassionate citizens of a pluralistic, civil society.
This structural dilemma should also give pause to those looking to Christian Democracy as a model to invent a softer, compassionate, post-Thatcherite conservatism on either side of the Atlantic.
He is, again, a skilled listener, a wise analyst, an invaluable guide, a compassionate prophet who reminds us of the first truth of democracy: To ask the most difficult moral question about our leaders is to ask it about ourselves.
This outcome flies in the face of compassionate conservatism and is a very dangerous possibility in our democracy.
Democracy presupposes that a majority of us are in fact discerning, morally responsible, and compassionate.
A man who came to office as a compassionate conservative has generally ruled as tough right-winger.In this section They say we're getting a democracy Bad for Koizumi, good for Japan Who judges the judges?
These supposed Burkeans dismiss the promotion of democracy and human rights as "ideological," the protection of human life and dignity as "theological," and compassionate conservatism as a modern heresy.
