Now Condoleezza Rice on democracy. [inaudible conversations] [applause] and actor price is going to be interviewed for us by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg or National Book festival cochair and very generous supporter mr. David rubenstein. [applause] please welcome both of them. Plea [applause] and thanks, and enjoy. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you very much or having me here and welcome everybody. Yo thanks for being here. Its a great event, great event. [applause] its hard to believe but youve now been out of government for about nine years bo so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend that we will talk about it tell us what you been doing since he left government other than writing three a selling books, this is the third but other than that you were teaching at stanford and what ozzy doing . Ive gone back to what i consider to be my real profession are they had thatat digression in washington. I started
As placing the monument to the Ten Commandments. In the state judiciary building. Why did you do it. Initially i was decorating that. I realize that god was a the source of the moral law. I decided to put that it was not to force anybody to believe certainly but to acknowledge god in the entire law. That is one of the greatly misconstrues concepts. I find it coming from the bible. And the kings of the tribe of judah. Throughout the scriptures you see where god kept separate those things which blonde to civil government. In the things that belong to his church. You can tell a lot of religious conservatives today. They think the separation of church and state is wrong. I think it is going to an extreme that is not right. I think thats what reverend falwell is referring to. They had been deceived. Or they are adopting the common ordinary you believe in separation of church and state. We should not establish an official religion in this country. Congress you will make that. Being the first
Everybodys attention please. All right. Welcome to the met club thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and i know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolutely delighted im not doing introduction yet but delighted to have dick march here the first time hes been here at the club. Thank you, welcome to the met club. [applause] were to have our friends from cspan here thats pretty cool so wave to the guys at cspan there. [laughter] yeah. Okay just a couple of quick announcements, our next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. Yeah, you will too. Our next event here at the club will be first thursday october fifth and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman adele who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband david who is a very noted economist is part of the easy under secretary the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hes been confirmed as undersecretary and treasury so theyve moved
Your a hospitality. With the first goal deal i represent china so that is a natural connection one of the things we have learned is there are multiple cultural issues coming up in the chinese American Economy i cannot imagine how to address these issues. Thank you very much. And to be on the National Committee board end of your contributions i am a senior director for Education Programs at the National Committee in rehab period of all decided to take time this evening to join us for what i am sure will be an interesting and thought provoking discussion. Wheel of us discussion among the three of us then open it up to questions and comments from the audience. If people are in the overflow room and you have questions come over and we will accommodate your question as well. Congratulations on your book the official publication date is tomorrow. So we are absolutely thrilled you are here to talk with us. Tell us how the book came to be. Sure. Look at china with that creativity i wanted to d
Just a couple of quickckan announcements, the next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. The next event the first thursday october 5, and that will be the Farewell Party to the chairwoman who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband, david who is a noted economist is the undersecretary of the treasuryne for International Monetary affairs said hes been confirmed as the undersecretary of the treasury. B he apparently is going to be here that night so it is a great opportunity for us to celebrateo them and wish them all the best to keep up a good connection in washington. The first thursday october 5 will be two weeks or so so it will be a great event. Please make sure you come back for that and i want to put in a plug its very nice for us to come here and talk and complain about the city is not going in the right direction. G but now is the time for us to be doing something about it and the time to get involved in campaigns. Whether you want to get involved