I Talk And Talk And Talk, And

I Protect My Right To Be A Catholic By Preserving Your Right To Believe As A Jew, A Protestant, Or Non-believer, Or As Anything Else You Choose. We Know That The Price Of Seeking To Force Our Beliefs On Others Is That They Might Some Day Force Theirs On Us.

It's An Old Story; It's As Old As Our History. The Difference Between Democrats And Republicans Has Always Been Measured In Courage And Confidence. The Republicans Believe That The Wagon Train Will Not Make It To The Frontier Unless Some Of The Old, Some Of The Young, Some Of The Weak, Are Left Behind By The Side Of The Trail. The Strong, The Strong They Tell Us, Will Inherit The Land. We Democrats Believe In Something Else. We Democrats Believe That We Can Make It All The Way With The Whole Family Intact, And We Have More Than Once.

You Want Calamities? What About The Ice Age? God Made This World, But Didn't Complete It.

We Believe In A Government Strong Enough To Use Words Like "love" And "compassion" And Smart Enough To Convert Our Noblest Aspirations Into Practical Realities.

In The End, I'm Convinced We Will All Benefit If Suspicion Is Replaced By Discussion, Innuendo By Dialogue; If The Emphasis In Our Debate Turns From A Search For Talismanic Criteria And Neat But Simplistic Answers To An Honest - More Intelligent - Attempt At Describing The Role Religion Has In Our Public Affairs, And The Limits Placed On That Role.