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17,267
And I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.
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17,272
First of all, I accept President Reagan's affirmation of faith.
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17,276
And I don't know if I've been born again, but I know I was born into a Christian family.
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17,282
It's probably the reason that I'm in politics.
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17,284
And I think we're all together on that.
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17,288
This nation is the most religious nation on Earth -- more people go to church and synagogues than any other nation on Earth -- and it's because we kept the politicians and the state out of the personal exercise of our faith.
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17,289
That's why faith in the United States is pure and unpolluted by the intervention of politicians.
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17,304
A minister who is in civil rights or in the conservative movement, because he believes his faith instructs him to do that, I admire.
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17,305
The fact that the faith speaks to us and that we are moral people, hopefully, I accept and rejoice in.
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17,306
It's when you try to use that to undermine the integrity of private political -- or private religious faith and the use of the state is where -- for the most personal decisions in American life -- that's where I draw the line.
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17,309
Yes, it's very difficult to rebut, because I find myself in so much agreement with Mr. Mondale.
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17,311
The only attacks I have made are on people who apparently would break away at that wall from the government side, using the government, using the power of the courts and so forth to hinder that part of the Constitution that says the government shall not only not establish a religion, it shall not inhibit the practice o...
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17,312
And they have been using these things to have government, through court orders, inhibit the practice of religion.
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17,313
A child wants to say grace in a school cafeteria and a court rules that they can't do it because it's school property.
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17,316
I have appointed one member to the Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor.
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17,318
And if I have the opportunity to appoint any more, I'll do it in the same manner that I did in selecting her.
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17,320
The platform to which the President refers, in fact, calls for a religious test in the selection of judges.
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17,328
Who would write the prayer?
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17,330
How would it be resolved when those disputes occur?
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17,348
And when people vote, I think you're going to see a very strong verdict by the American people that they favor the approach that I'm talking about.
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17,349
The American people want arms control.
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17,352
And they want an American foreign policy that leads toward a safer world.
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17,353
The American people see this debt, and they know it's got to come down.
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17,354
And if it won't come down, the economy's going to slow down, maybe go into a recession.
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17,356
And they know this debt must come down as well, because it's unfair to our children.
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17,358
They know that these toxic waste dumps should have been cleaned up a long time ago, and they know that people's lives and health are being risked, because we've had an administration that has been totally insensitive to the law and the demand for the protection of the environment.
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17,360
They want to get our edge back in science, and they want a policy headed by the President that helps close this gap that's widening between the United States and Europe and Japan.
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17,362
They want those civil rights laws enforced.
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17,370
I've said it's going to take some work.
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17,373
The President answers that it didn't happen or, if it did, it was resolved later in a commission.
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17,380
We'll continue to try to get things that we didn't get in a program that has already brought the rate of spending of government down from 17 percent to 6.1 percent, a program of returning authority and autonomy to the local and State governments that has been unjustly seized by the Federal Government.
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17,382
And I left the party eventually, because I could no longer follow the turn in the Democratic leadership that took us down an entirely different path, a path of centralizing authority in the Federal Government, lacking trust in the American people.
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17,383
I promised, when we took office, that we would reduce inflation.
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17,385
I promised that we would reduce taxes.
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17,388
But at least it took that burden away from them.
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17,401
There are tasks that government legitimately should enforce and tasks that government performs well, and you've named some of them.
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17,409
I think that we're out in front of most -- and I see that the red light is blinking, so I can't continue.
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17,413
The President says that when the Democratic Party made its turn, he left it.
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17,414
The year that he decided we had lost our way was the year that John F. Kennedy was running against Richard Nixon.
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17,415
I was chairman of "Minnesotans for Kennedy;'' President Reagan was chairman of a thing called "Democrats for Nixon.''
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17,416
Now, maybe we made a wrong turn with Kennedy, but I'll be proud of supporting him all of my life.
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17,417
And I'm very happy that John Kennedy was elected, because John Kennedy looked at the future with courage, saw what needed to be done, and understood his own government.
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17,418
The President just said that his government is shrinking.
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17,421
And instead of retreating -- instead of being strong where we should be strong, he wants to make it strong and intervene in the most private and personal questions in American life.
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17,426
I hadn't gotten around to reregistering as yet.
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17,428
But I finally did it.
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17,430
Mr. Mondale referred to the farmers' worst year.
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17,431
The farmers are not the victims of anything this administration has done.
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17,433
All of these things are presently being rectified, and I think that we are going to salvage the farmers.
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17,446
Now, that I would want to see in any judge and with regard to any issue having to do with human life.
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17,447
But with regard to abortion, and I have a feeling that this is -- there's been some reference without naming it here in the remarks of Mr. Mondale tied to injecting religion into government.
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17,452
We have seen premature births that are now grown-up, happy people going around.
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17,453
Also, there is a strange dichotomy in this whole position about our courts ruling that abortion is not the taking of a human life.
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17,455
Now, isn't it strange that that same woman could have taken the life of her unborn child, and it was abortion and not murder, but if somebody else does it, that's murder?
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17,457
So, this has been my feeling about abortion, that we have a problem now to determine -- and all the evidence so far comes down on the side of the unborn child being a living human being.
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17,465
Our laws against murder are State laws.
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17,468
And no one has approached it from that matter.
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17,469
It does not happen that the church that I belong to had that as part of its dogma.
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17,470
I know that some churches do.
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17,479
Is it really the view of the American people, however you feel on the question of abortion, that government ought to be reaching into your livingrooms and making choices like this?
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17,480
I think it cannot work, won't work, and will lead to all kinds of cynical evasions of the law.
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17,487
Somebody went to a woman and nearly killed her.
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17,488
That's always been a serious crime and always should be a serious crime.
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17,489
But how does that compare with the problem of a woman who is raped?
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17,491
I don't think so, and I think it's going in exactly the wrong direction.
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17,492
In America, on basic moral questions we have always let the people decide in their own personal lives.
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17,495
And we're the most religious people on Earth.
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17,502
The basic decision of the Supreme Court is that each person has to make this judgment in her own life, and that's the way it's been done.
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17,503
And it's a personal and private, moral judgment.
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17,518
Well, with regard to this being a personal choice, isn't that what a murderer is insisting on, his or her right to kill someone because of whatever fault they think justifies that?
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17,519
Now, I'm not capable, and I don't think you are, any of us, to make this determination that must be made with regard to human life.
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17,520
I am simply saying that I believe that that's where the effort should be directed -- to make that determination.
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17,526
I agree with that, and that's why I was a principal sponsor of a liberal adoption law, so that more of these children could come to term, so that the young mothers were educated, so we found an option, an alternative.
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17,530
Since I've got about 20 seconds, let me just say one thing.
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17,552
That's why my proposal protects everybody from $25,000 a year or less against any tax increases, and treats those $70,000 and under in a way that is more beneficial than the way the President proposes with a sales tax or a flat tax.
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17,553
What does this mean in real life?
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17,554
Well, the other day, Vice President Bush disclosed his tax returns to the American people.
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17,555
He's one of the wealthiest Americans, and he's our Vice President.
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17,564
The first thing is, everybody 25,000 and under would have no tax increase.
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17,566
And his Secretary of the Treasury said he's studying a sales tax or a value-added tax.
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17,569
Up until about $70,000, as you go up the ladder, my proposals will be far more beneficial.
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17,571
I don't think we can do that for a few years.
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17,572
But at some point, we want to do that as well.
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17,575
You know, I wasn't going to say this at all, but I can't help it.
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17,577
[Laughter] I don't have a plan to tax -- or increase taxes.
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17,586
It had several tax increases phased in over a period of time -- there are two more yet to come between now and 1989.
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17,592
But if you take it in numbers of dollars instead of percentage, yes, you could say, well, that person got 10 times as much as this other person.
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17,594
But if you take it in percentages, then you find out that it is fair and equitable across the board.
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17,599
If you got the Government down to the lowest level, that you yourself could say it could not go any lower and still perform the services for the people, and if the recovery was so complete that you knew you were getting the ultimate amount of revenues that you could get through that growth, and there was still some sli...
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17,601
With regard to assailing Mr. Bush about his tax problems and the difference from the tax he once paid and then the later tax he paid, I think if you looked at the deductions, there were great legal expenses in there -- had to do, possibly, with the sale of his home, and they had to do with his setting up of a blind tru...
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17,607
They've got so many loopholes they don't have to pay much in taxes.
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17,612
You said it when President Carter said that you were going to cut Medicare, and you said, "Oh, no, there you go again, Mr.
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17,614
And what did you do right after the election?
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17,616
And so, when you say, "There you go again'' -- people remember this, you know.
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17,625
With regard to Medicare, no, but it's time for us to say that Medicare is in pretty much the same condition that Social Security was, and something is going to have to be done in the next several years to make it fiscally sound.
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17,647
We have found also in our studies that in this increase in poverty, it all had to do with their private earnings.
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17,648
It had nothing to do with the transfer of payments from government by way of many programs.
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17,650
We're spending a third more on all of the -- well, all of the programs of human service.
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17,657
We didn't think that was right.
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17,658
And so, we have set a standard that those loans and those grants are directed to the people who otherwise could not go to college, their family incomes were so low.
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