On the recordSeptember 10, 1997
I say, let us go back to the local level where the action is, where a lot of the solutions are, and so forth. On the subject of right and wrong, I was jogging the other day out in front, leaving the Capitol, going by the Smithsonian, toward the Washington Monument, and two student-type looking fellows were sitting on the ground with a laptop computer. They had a big poster board. It said, ``Is there a difference between right and wrong?'' And they were sitting around punching figures into their laptop, apparently proving that there was no difference between right and wrong. I did not have the nerve, but I certainly had the mind, and I was thinking, I just ought to jog right over there and step on that laptop and ruin it, and then turn around and see if they think there is a right or a wrong. Because I have a feeling they would say, hey, that was wrong, buddy. And it is interesting how quickly you can kind of turn the debate from some of the academic Washingtonian deep thinkers and just bring them back to the reality of the real world and hometown America, because that is where I think the salvation of our great country is.
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