i don't know how that happened, it is just the way it has work from time immemorial. think i'm kidding, i'm not. [laughter] but i work with many of you who chairman around and as of the judiciary committee on issues of tribal sovereignty, i for that overall respect the nations is central to the very being of everyone sitting here in this audience today. but beyond that, i know the issues you focus on very from nation to nation. one of the things that offends me is when people say indian nation, everything is the same. it is different. it is different from the east coast to the west to the central part of the country to the southwest. not everyone has the same problems and concerns. concerns onltiple your agenda as you meet this week. we recognize the difficulties you face working with state government to secure, for example, federal disaster recovery funding. that is why the standing --overy improvement act after hurricane sandy we amended something called the stafford act so you could go directly to the president of the united states to ask for disaster declarations

we have known that we were apart part of it since time immemorial . other governments around us knew country,uld love this despite the incredible, painful history. promises,l the broken despite the words not kept because we had believed in the idea of the united states, even when the united states could not live up to that idea. we have believed in the idea of the united states before it was a country. when those who founded the united states look for governing structure to support the truth that they thought was self evident, they looked to the , the fivenfederacy great nations. without the example of those nations living together in ,armony, even when we disagree the promise of america might not have come together. come back here year after year. sometimes for me it is week after week. sometimes with the pundits and the evidence saying that the congress won't do anything, we still believe in the constitution that says the treaties are the supreme law of the land. sometimes i think that indians believe in our constitution more than anyone else. conti

known that we were a part of it since time immemorial. it was before some non-indians or other governments around us knew it. we can love this country despite the incredible, painful history, despite all the broken promises, despite the words not kept because we have believed in the idea of the united states even when the united states could not live up to that idea. we have believed in the idea of the united states before it was the fathers who founded the united states looked for a governing structure that truthssupport the t that they thought were self evident, they looked to the air quite nation. without indian nations living together in harmony, even when we disagree, the promise of america might not have come together. we come back here year after year, sometimes for me it's week after week, because even when all of the pundits and maybe all the evidence say that the president cannot do anything and the congress won't do anything, we still believe in the constitution that says treaties are the supreme law of the land. sometimes i th

reassemble as much of the old soviet union as possible and if there is one principle from time immemorialit is that bullies and tyrants don't respect weakness and don't respect appeasement. appeasement. appeasement does not work. you look at ukraine for example, ukraine, when putin invaded crimea president obama said publicly, well, it seems to me his lawyers are telling him something different than what my lawyers are telling me. [laughter] that is utterly incoherent. this was not a a debate between lawyers and the law school faculty lounge. >> nothing against lawyers. >> quite a bit to be fair. look, it is fundamentally misunderstanding the problem. this was not a question of international law. let's be clear. american be clear. america undertook a treaty obligation to stand with ukraine. ukraine not long ago have the world's largest nuclear arsenal, and it willingly handed it over. in exchange for handing over your nukes we we will help defend the territorial integrity of ukraine. now, i guarantee anyone else with notes across the world looked at that and are saying, i ain't giving of

all around the mediterranean world, the ancient pagan gods lingered in their age-old temples and immemorials. but their power was under threat. >> roman society, roman law, are both highly tolerant of religious diversity, as long as you do the things which every roman is expected to do-- sort of those religious acts which are your civic duty. nobody cares what you believe in your heart of hearts. then appears christianity, which is exclusive, which is intolerant, which will not allow you to do whatever everybody else does. and it's a profound shock to those who get to know it well. it appears as a dangerous rival to the present society as it begins to grow strong. >> christian writers throughout the middle and later second century developed the techniques of trying to argue that christianity was really a superior religion, because it was monotheistic, over against polytheistic, and it... christians exemplified higher virtue in their lives than did pagans. they pointed to examples of christians living in chastity, great virtue, self-sacrifice and so on, throughout their lives. these christia

that had been done from as they t put it time immemorial. me just show you really quickly, these are a couple of of the illustrations that actually appeared in frederick's book,┘ f1 o the wellch ordered kitchen. this one -- it always makes me eed think i need to go back into my kitche own kitchen and redesign right? everything, right? on the right or the left. ht you see those pathways. think of time motion studies, right? this is the badly ground kitchen gro equipment. so that youup walk -- this messy the zigzag from the serving table to the kitchen cabinet to the and so forth. here's thegr efficient grouping.e preparing route is "a," clearing ri route is "b." you get the clean motion of how is work is supposed to be done. all right. let's talk about maybe an even more radical5 john b. watson actually began his graduate education in philosophy. with none other than john 1d%dewey.the another link to our other thinkers in the course. he almost invents the field of behaviorist psychology. a he looksnd at how animals were conditioned by stimulu

it's human nature and people have been living in family structures since time immemorial and the reason why religious truth has been sewing new line is for that reason. every reason to be optimistic. optimistic. whatever conditions we endure or face 50 years from now people need and desire to be in families and communities because that is ingrained in who we are. >> the breakdown of this family, a formal breakdown, breakdown, living together more or less as if they were married, i don't know that that suggests a way out if the breakdown is more than formal. that suggests a remedy, a disease that we have that they don't have. >> the formal problem that we describe is going to get worse, the worse, but the consequences may not be as catastrophic as we fear. >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> from this conference and essay on the meeting and destiny of liberalism, the drift of us foreign policy and the challenges to western survival. >> it is my pleasure to introduce the moderator for our final panel. the diplomat and resident. he served as the senior advisor. also a rese