Political Quotes

“as a young father, I learned something about raising my children. I learned that there had to be rules and the rules had to be enforced and if my children chose to break the rules, they had to be allowed to experience the consequences of their choices. I did my children no favor if I allowed them to escape those consequences. But I learned some other things, things that were just as important as enforcing the rules to the letter. I learned that if a child disobeys and the punishment is so much more severe than the offense that we make an enemy out of that child. We may win the power struggle but everything we hope that child will learn by enforcing the rules with such severity will be lost. This principle never changes, even among adults. That is why we need a censure here with appropriate punishment. The Nation knows that we have overreached in this situation. If we have appropriate punishment, we can learn, we can maintain respect and we can move on as friends and not enemies.”