We Have To Preserve It And Use

Well, What I Tried To Do Is Simply To Get Out On The Land. And When I Came To Washington, I Think One Of The Mistakes We Made Early On Was Kind Of Having An Ideological Dispute Up In The Congress.

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 Have No Question That The Roman Catholic Church Teaches That Abortion In Virtually All Circumstances Is Wrong. I Think The Church's Position At All Times In Modern History Has Been That It Is Unequivocally Opposed To Abortion.but That's Not The Question For A Catholic Who Is A Public Official. I Happen To Subscribe To The Church's Position As A Person. Still The Question, As Governor Mario Cuomo Suggested, Is: What Is Your Obligation As A Civic Leader? I Agree Entirely With John F. Kennedy. I Answer Only To My Conscience In My Public Life And That's That.

We Have To Preserve It And Use It Sustainably. And The Short-term Use Of Resources At The Destruction Of The Long-term Heritage Of This Country Is Not A Policy That We Can Pursue.

I Would Argue That Practices That Destroy Ecosystems Always Destroy Jobs.