that s what kept us going. thank you so much. thank you c-span always so kind. god bless you, my brother. that was afterwards book f s signature program in which authors of the latest and nonfiction bookser interviewed. watch past programs at booktv.org. now a reair of an afterwards program. former missouri senator john dan don furth looks at the role religion can play in partisan politics. interviewed by tim hutchinson. so good to see you and i want to congratulate you on your new book, the relevance of religion, how faithful people can change politics. i have to say i enjoyed working on this book, and i hope people enjoy reading it. i look forward to visiting with you about and it hopefully creating a little interest because i think it s certainly a worthy read. so you write in the prologue, when politics is broken, we should fix it. and you describe religion and religious people as a gift of politics and that religion puts politics in its proper place, and
mr. president, honored guests, it s a great honor for me to be here this evening with all of you. some of you may recognize me from television, but most of you probably recognize my voice and not my face from national public radio. we are assembled here at the embassy of israel in washington, d.c. to award medals and certificates of honor of the righteous among the nations to the late master sergeant roddy edmunds and to the late valerie sveski of poland who risked their lives to rescue jews. the holocaust remembrance authority was created by the state of israel in order to gather all information about the holocaust to commemorate, document, preserve, research and educate. when it was established, the jewish people did not forget the non-jews who stood by their side in it the darkest hours of history, struggling with the enormity of the loss and grappling with the impact of the total abandonment and betrayal of europe s jews, the state of israel made a point of remembering
that they currently exist in, we re just going to have weaker product delivered later. i think we need to have some reform as the next round. and i think there s enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. well, i thank you for that. and you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. and i agree with you. just flat-out reductions is just the first step. you have to it s a little bit like sequestration in that it s a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. we ve made some reforms. we re putting the service chiefs more involved. you are aware. but it still seems to go on. and every time we really need something, we use that expedited proce
it is what they decide to put their faith in. everybody s actions by their are ruled by their faith. in my case, i have strong faith in god and i live by godly principles. loving your fellow man, developing your talents. having values and principles. that is going to dictate how i treat everybody. constitutionthe which is the supreme law of the land, was designed by men of faith. it has a judeo-christian foundation. therefore, there is no conflict. it is not a problem. does that answer your question? [applause] my question was, can you give a situation where god s law trumps the law here from your point of view? mr. carson: if we create laws the are contrary to judeo-christian values that we think we should fight against those kinds of laws. that weally believe still have an obligation to obey the laws, whether we agree with them or not. be ase otherwise, we will lawless nation. that doesn t mean we shouldn t fight against anything we see as unjust. we have the mechanisms
fragile environment, it is important to balance the state in the country with the environment. the question to me is that we need to be stewards of the environment. it is not just a political statement, it is a religious statement. i think we can achieve this. this is an extraordinary country. we should find the next disruptive technologies. i have a friend here from florida who was born in iowa who served in the florida senate and who was also the premier environmentalist in the public sector when i was serving and, kurt kaiser, do you have something to say? we moved to tallahassee, and that is where we wanted to live, was florida, so i got years inegislature, 10 the statehouse and 10 years in the state senate, and i have watched all of the political leadership from the 1960 s to cancurrent day, and if you compare marco rubio to jab, that is a joke. joke., that is a the things that jeb bush was talking about, he is not exaggerating one hit on what he it on what he is talking