We Need The Breast And The Brightest

The Real Transgression Occurs When Religion Wants Government To Tell Citizens How To Live Uniquely Personal Parts Of Their Lives. The Failure Of Prohibition Proves The Futility Of Such An Attempt When A Majority Or Even A Substantial Minority Happens To Disagree. Some Questions May Be Inherently Individual Ones, Or People May Be Sharply Divided About Whether They Are. In Such Cases, Like Prohibition And Abortion, The Proper Role Of Religion Is To Appeal To The Conscience Of The Individual, Not The Coercive Power Of The State.

Individual Faults And Frailties Are No Excuse To Give In - And No Exemption From The Common Obligation To Give Of Ourselves.

It's Disgraceful That Year After Year, Congress Has Bowed To The Tobacco Lobby And Refused To Act.

[w]ords Are Fine, But It Has To Be What A Generation Reads Into Those Words.

From The Windows Of My Office In Boston ... I Can See The Golden Stairs From Boston Harbor Where All Eight Of My Great-grandparents Set Foot On This Great Land For The First Time. That Immigrant Spirit Of Limitless Possibility Animates America Even Today.