Possible. In the islamic world, and ultimately in the authoritarian powers, that is in russia and in china. My i think what reagan would have argued is, look, we can get along or we can manage a piece with these countries, but well never achieve any lasting accomplishments or any lasting developments together with those countries unless theres some narrowing of these idealogical differences. For example, in some islamic countries, its not possible to have an Opposition Party because you cant be second ewe list. You must, in fact, adhere to the islamic law. Which is identified with the government and with the state. Individualism in asian societies is such a different concept as it is in western societies, that is individuals have the right to question authorities, Even Authority of their own parents and their own family. We believe that in the west. We educate our children to think for themselves. Sometimes that means they do disagree with their parents as well as with others. So we ne
And we thought, oh my god, this is such a big hotel, we will never get 200 people. We lasted at that hotel only for a year, and we have moved from one hotel to another weve held the convention every other year in washington, d. C. And this year there are almost 1300 folks registered already. [applause] with all those conventions, weve always started in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. Each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. And two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. Deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot . [applause] god bless you, paul, and thanks for the introduction. God bless all of you. Im happy to be here. I dont know how many times, but truly indeed this is a pleasure for me to be here amongst all of you as w
Florida. I think you drove from orlando. Thats impressive. Thank you very much for your determination to be here. I know it wasnt easy. Let me pause for a moment to thank all our first responders, local government officials and Community Members who stepped up and responded to the Hurricane Irma in my home state of florida. It is impressive to see everyone working together. Im confident we will continue to Work Together in the aftermath of the storm as well. Todays hearing is another important step in the process of considering forms to the irs. I have stated previously i do not view this effort as an opportunity to degrade or discredit the good work being done by irs employees. However, im a big believer in continuous improvement. Thats been my philosophy in business. We can always get better. Government like business we should always be looking ways to improve. A system of voluntary tax compliant, even with the simplest of tax codes, there are bound to be disputed. What we hope to le
We will make it through and stand together and be united. Host of course. Thank you for your time, congresswoman. A forum on us transit atlantic relations as european Foreign Policy experts talk about europes approach to russian aggression, trade, immigration and relations with the United States on these topics. The Brookings Institution is the host of this event. Thank you for joining us here. My name is bruce jones, Vice President of the Foreign Policy here at brookings and my pleasure to welcome you here today for todays event hosted by the Brookings Center on the United States and europe in collaboration with the robert. [inaudible] this event is part of our expanding partnership. This is a multi Year Research program and platform that will spur a range of new activities that will spur on debate not only on the relationships but on global issues the transatlantic partners can touch together and work on together. We are very grateful to bosch for the support of this initiative and w
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Members of the committee i call this hearing on agriculture and forestry to order todays marks the ninth hearing this your dedicated to stakeholders all around the country country, programs are working as we work towards a formal. This includes taking look and spending requests and proposals and do not have day budget baseline. As i said the committee must be mindful of a very tough budgetary impairment that we have to face while it is a principal duty to ensure the next farm bill provides our producers with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world with the responsibilities dont stop there the farm bill needs to support businesses with schools. Said and that is what the farmers and ranchers call home. We had the opportunity to hear from a number of stakeholders. Into the witness is a apologize. Looking at the electric cooperative. And then with an affordable and Reliable Energy. And with the commodities. The roll Telec