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Gilbert Gutknecht: I just want to share one other thing that I learned from one of my constituents, and it is a very important thing. He…

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
I just want to share one other thing that I learned from one of my constituents, and it is a very important thing. He said, this was several months ago when I was home, he said, sometimes, and we get into this, Republican versus Democrat, he said, it is not Republican versus Democrat. In fact, he said, it is not even really right versus left. He said, it is right versus wrong. And what we have been talking about, some of the instances that we have been talking about tonight, it really is right versus wrong.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the importance of moral clarity in political debates.

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