Who said this in 1996:

The aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse is “giving way to a kind of quiet despair about the difficult work yet to be done at home, work on democracy in America. … Like most Americans, I listened with some skepticism to the Cold War claim that America was a ‘beacon of democracy.’ When American presidents said that, I chalked it up to bad speechwriting and hyperbole. Sometimes I was just plain embarrassed, because America is at best an imperfect democracy. It was imperfect at its birth. When the founding fathers said, ‘We the people,’ they did not mean me. My ancestors were property–a fraction of a man. Women were not included in those immortal constitutional phrases concerning the right of people, ‘in the course of human events,’ to choose who would rule.”