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The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms. ”
Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship. ”
Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free. ”
I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means. ”
Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards. ”
Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money. ”
If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans. ”
The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory. ”
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ”
People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music. ”