The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
From Mario Cuomo
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
My parents were immigrants.
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
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