We Must Identify Our Enemies And Drive

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.

When I Was At Notre Dame Studying Under Joe Evans, Frank O'malley, And Others, There Was A Very Lively Debate About The Distinction Between Natural Law And Revealed Truth. Most Of The Philosophers Of Church And State Expected That What Was Going To Be Advocated As The Law Of The Land Would Be Related To Natural Law. If You Attempted To Draw Lines About Certain General Moral Truths That Were Derivative Of Logic And Reason, They Would Prove To Be Widely Shared, And Therefore Suitable To Be Enacted Into Law On Both The Civic And Religious Sides.

We Had Kind Of A Rocky Start, But I Spent A Lot Of Time Working With The President And Handing Him Statistics And Showing Him What We Were Doing As We Went Along And Kind Of Saying To Him, You Know, This Is Really Important.

The Notion That Big Business And Big Labor And Big Government Can Sit Down Around A Table Somewhere And Work Out The Direction Of The American Economy Is At Complete Variance With The Reality Of Where The American Economy Is Headed. I Mean, It's Like Dinosaurs Gathering To Talk About The Evolution Of A New Generation Of Mammals.

On Areas Like Abortion Where There Is Major Disagreement Among The Mainstream Religious Groups In The Judeo-christian Tradition, I Believe That Requires A Lot More Caution. The Jewish Position On Abortion Is Very Different From The Roman Catholic Position. That Is Reason To Be Cautious About Enacting Laws Rather Than Saying To The Religious Group: Instruct Your Followers On These Matters As Matters Of Personal Religious Belief.