Alan Keyes in 2007 Des Moines Register Republican debate
On Education:
We allowed the judges to drive God out of our schools
The major problem in American education today is that we allowed the judges to drive God out of our schools. We allowed the moral foundation of this republic, which is that we are created equal and endowed by our Creator, not by our
Constitution or our leaders with our rights. If we don’t teach our children that heritage and the moral culture that goes along with it, we cannot remain free. They will not be disciplined to learn science, to learn math, to learn history, to learn
anything, and they don’t want to talk about this except when they’re squabbling about their own personal faith and forgetting that we have a national creed. And that national creed needs to be taught to our children so that whether they are scientists or
businessmen or lawyers, they will stand on the solid ground of a moral education that gives them the discipline they need to serve the right, to exercise their freedom with dignity, and to defend the justice because they understand it is our heritage.
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Republican Debate
Dec 12, 2007
On Government Reform:
Focus on moral sovereignty, tax reform, & sealing the border
I would concentrate on is restoring the sovereignty of the people of this country. I would restore their moral sovereignty, declaring that no action taken by the executive branch would support, aid or abet anyone who is destroying the constitutional
rights of those who are in the womb. I would sign an executive order to that effect day one, and we would reestablish this government’s commitment to the constitutional rights of our posterity. I would also want to abolish the income tax, and implement
the FairTax proposal that will end the wasteful spending by putting them under the discipline of a people who can actually withhold their taxes by changing their patterns of spending. I would establish a national border guard. I would seal the
borders of the US so that only those would cross our borders who are subject to our laws and the terms of those laws. I would encourage a real respect for the security that must be maintained along that border if we’re serious about the war on terror.
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Republican Debate
Dec 12, 2007
On Principles & Values:
Be authentic about who you are
The most important thing is to be absolutely authentic about who you are, not to say things today that contradict what you were two years ago. Not to take a stand on the most important principle that faces our nation today, the question
of whether we are all created equal and endowed by our creator--not the Constitution, but our God--with our unalienable rights from the womb to the tomb, and not to abandon the heritage of the Republican Party.
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Republican Debate
Dec 12, 2007
On Tax Reform:
FairTax turns off spigot that funds political ambitions
Q: Does our country’s financial situation creates a security risk?A: I think it’s obviously a national security problem, but you have to understand what national security is. The Constitution defines it as securing the blessings of liberty.
It has to do with the freedom of our people. If you want to secure the blessings of liberty for the American people, you cut off the spigot that funds the political ambition of our leaders by abolishing the income tax and restoring control of
100% of their income to the American worker. That means you replace it with a FairTax system that puts the American people in control of their money.
By doing that, you will encourage the politicians to stop spending to fund their little political cliques and only limit their spending to what actually produces results for the American people.
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Republican debate
Dec 12, 2007
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