Political Quotes

“I just come out on a different side of this thing. I talked a little bit about this last night, so therefore I will not go into all the sort of philosophic background here. I just would like to make a few points. First of all, there is not anybody that I know of who likes persecution, particularly those people who are being persecuted. The worst kind of persecution, of course, is religious persecution. And we would all like to have it stopped, period, end of it. The question is how do we get at it? It seems to me that when we want to help somebody, we should make sure that the people we want to help want to be helped. That is a sort of a basic human axiom. And the research I have done and the contacts I have made, particularly through the National Council of Churches, or through other friends I have had in the world, I have traveled around to different parts of this world and talked not only to business and political, but also religious leaders, not a single religious group wants this.”