The Northwest Is In Better Shape Than

I Think There Has Been An Unfortunate Tendency For A Lot Of Different Groups To Forget That Distinction Between Natural Law And Revealed Truth And To Say: Our Complete Agenda Is To Be Enacted Into Laws Governing The Entire Society. Many Different Religious Groups Claim That Authority, Not Only Catholics. A Lot Of Different Protestant Groups As Well Are Stepping Forward To Say: Here Is Our Agenda, It Is A Moral Agenda, Ergo It Must Be Enacted Into Law. I Think That The Distinction Between Natural Law And More Ultimate Kinds Of Doctrine Is Being Lost.

Well, What I Tried To Do Is Simply To Get Out On The Land. And When I Came To Washington, I Think One Of The Mistakes We Made Early On Was Kind Of Having An Ideological Dispute Up In The Congress.

Taxes Are The Flip Side Of Expenditures. The Same Issues Apply On Both Sides. There Are Questions Of Fairness And Justice As Much In The Way You Take Money Away As In The Way You Disburse It.

We've Set Aside Tens Of Millions Of Acres Of Those Northwestern Forests For Perpetuity. The Unemployment Rate Has Gone Not Up, But Down. The Economy Has Gone Up.

Well, I Think Breathing Life Into The Endangered Species Act, Taking Those Wolves Back Into Yellowstone, Restoring The Salmon In The Rivers Of The Pacific Northwest.