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the more that people are older
established in a position of power
the greater
the penalty should be for unethical behavior one of the biggest jokes nowadays
and I'm sure you've written about it is when a person of importance says i take full
responsibility and then moves on yeah i mean the notion that we're sitting here
in may of two thousand and seven and paul wolfowitz won't leave the world bank until
everybody says oh you did nothing wrong and alberto gonzales and and
george bush say well what did mister gonzales do wrong nothing was what george
bush said on may twenty-second what kind of example is that sending
when people in power take no responsibility and there are the
consequences are so feeble
to my mind and i have felt this way
for
i would guess since maybe nineteen fifty seven or eight
it's a long time not to change your mind about something obviously I'm not very
flexible
uh hypocrisy
is
the most
widespread sin and the most abominable sin in the united states because it's
what you're talking about
you have to do it right but i don't have to
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