Democracy Is Not Meant To Be Efficient,

We Are Disgusted By The Things That We Desire, And We Desire What Disgusts Us.

You Campaign In Poetry. You Govern In Prose.

I Somehow Got This Reputation Of Diddling And Dithering. I Don't Remember Dithering At All.

I Watched A Small Man With Thick Calluses On Both Hands Work 15 And 16 Hours A Day. I Saw Him Once Literally Bleed From The Bottoms Of His Feet, A Man Who Came Here Uneducated, Alone, Unable To Speak The Language, Who Taught Me All I Needed To Know About Faith And Hard Work By The Simple Eloquence Of His Example.

The Values Derived From Religious Belief Will Not - And Should Not - Be Accepted As Part Of The Public Morality Unless They Are Shared By The Pluralistic Community At Large, By Consensus.