We Have To Preserve It And Use

When I Was At Notre Dame Studying Under Joe Evans, Frank O'malley, And Others, There Was A Very Lively Debate About The Distinction Between Natural Law And Revealed Truth. Most Of The Philosophers Of Church And State Expected That What Was Going To Be Advocated As The Law Of The Land Would Be Related To Natural Law. If You Attempted To Draw Lines About Certain General Moral Truths That Were Derivative Of Logic And Reason, They Would Prove To Be Widely Shared, And Therefore Suitable To Be Enacted Into Law On Both The Civic And Religious Sides.

I Am One Of Those People Who Deeply Resents Not Having Been Born In The 19th Century, When There Were Still Open Places To Explore.

We've Set Aside Tens Of Millions Of Acres Of Those Northwestern Forests For Perpetuity. The Unemployment Rate Has Gone Not Up, But Down. The Economy Has Gone Up.

We Had Kind Of A Rocky Start, But I Spent A Lot Of Time Working With The President And Handing Him Statistics And Showing Him What We Were Doing As We Went Along And Kind Of Saying To Him, You Know, This Is Really Important.

Well, I Think Breathing Life Into The Endangered Species Act, Taking Those Wolves Back Into Yellowstone, Restoring The Salmon In The Rivers Of The Pacific Northwest.