unalterable course, or dry both majorities and minorities into the cruelties -- of the inquisition, the gulag, or jihad. " let me simplify -- implicit in the constitution is that there are no absolute truths. if you had absolute truth, you would persecuted. he would become a fanatic of ajihad, gulag, whatever. now it was certainly a good thing that america escaped religious fanaticism and political tierney, but no previous president ever credited this achievement to the founders' rejection of absolute truth, views known as truth. [laughter] would becomes of the self- evident truth that abraham lincoln celebrated and risk all to preserve? that much in the picking jr. invoked so dramatically from the lincoln memorial? let's just say that obama is wrangling with this question promises to be instructive. the future of american culture will depend on whether we get beyond the post-modernism, beyond the assumption that all values are relative. if we do, that really would be the second american revolution. in reagan's farewell address, not as well-known as it should be, he admitted by implication th

as long as you were willing to speak candidly about the gulag so that the people who were there knew which side you were are. if you are going to have negotiations with iran which we probably are not because the ayatollah don't seem to want it but if we are plenty of negotiations with iran it is double important, even more important than today and quite important today that we make those hour moral position clear. >> i will just repeat something i said earlier. there are a lot of states around the world, a lot of countries and international organizations that just say there must be peace, they're must be peaceful solution, peaceful resolution. we all want a diplomatic resolution. but we were seen by many as part of the problem. so i would not underestimate the fact that since the president has gone out of his way to try to engage and we have been completely rebuffed that there's more on the international consensus where the real problem is to meet spec the last question. then -- >> i operate under the pseudonym urban revival media on youtube and this is only my second time here at th

you are on the road to the gulag or the death camps, et cetera, et cetera. to the age of ideology, i certainly say good riddance. but capitalism, you always needs breaks on any system. -- brakes on any system. every vehicle needs braking mechanism. how hard do you want to hit the brakes? i'm afraid human beings are so subject to the motions and can be stirred up biuret rate -- by rhetoric to first of all drive too fast and hit the brakes too hard. now in the past 20 years, we drove too fast. because capitalism with all of its inequities and flaws has nonetheless given us, those who have been lucky enough to be born in the functional capital of systems the best quality of life and greatest system of freedom in human history. so anybody who says capitalism doesn't work, fine, show me something that has worked better. do you want to live in the old style state et cetera? capitalism, i am not one who has profited from it. i have a better life than my father and mother who had a better life than their father or mother. the rhetoric from the left, any of the ideol

human complexity, the answer is always change humanity to fit the system and you're on the road to the gulag or the death camps, etc., etc., so to the age of ideology, i certainly say, good riddance. but capitalism -- look, you always need breaks on any system. every vehicle needs some braking mechanism and theuestion is, you know, how hard you want to hit the brakes. and i'm afraid we human beings are so subject to emotions, and can be so stirred up by rhetoric, that we are apt to first of all, drive too fast, then hit the brakes too hard. now, in the past 20 years, we drove too fast. now the challenge is not to avoid braking too fast. because capital i am, with all its inequities, with all its flaws, has nonetheless given us those who have been lucky enough to be born in the functioning capitalist systems, the best quality of life and the greatest amount of freedom in human history. there's just no precedent for it. so anybody who says capital i am doesn't work, fine, show me something that has worked better. do you really want to live in an old fashioned mercantile state or in an ethnic d