Look, I Don't Even Agree

The Absence Of Utopianism In The Constitution, Law, And Traditional Political Culture Has Been ... Important In Limiting Expectations Concerning What Can Be Achieved By Politics. The History Of The Last Two Centuries Confirms What The Framers Of The Constitution Understood: That The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good, And The Search For Unalloyed Virtue In Public Life Leads To Unalloyed Terror.

Words Can Destroy. What We Call Each Other Ultimately Becomes What We Think Of Each Other, And It Matters.

I Conclude That It Is A Fundamental Mistake To Think That Salvation, Justice, Or Virtue Come Through Merely Human Institutions.

Cultural Constraints Condition And Limit Our Choices, Shaping Our Characters With Their Imperatives.

I Think That It's Always Appropriate For Americans And For American Foreign Policy To Make Clear Why We Feel That Self-government Is Most Compatible With Peace, The Well-being Of People, And Human Dignity