When It Comes To Anything That's Social,

Each Generation Of Americans Must Define What It Means To Be An American.

If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

When I Was A Younger Man And Had A Life, I Owned An El Camino Pickup In The '70s. It Was A Real Sort Of Southern Deal. I Had Astroturf In The Back.

I Want To Say To You Is That James Madison And Thomas Jefferson Did Not Intend To Drive A Stake In The Heart Of Religion And To Drive It Out Of Our Public Life. What They Intended To Do Was To Set Up A System So That We Could Bring Religion Into Our Public Life And Into Our Private Life Without Any Of Us Telling The Other What To Do.

We Are On The Right Track To The 21st Century. We Are On The Right Track, But Our Work Is Not Finished. What Should We Do? First, Let Us Consider How To Proceed. I Say The Question Is No Longer, "who's To Blame?" But "what To Do?"