American - Politician | October 15, 1942 -
I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
Jim Leach
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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I have a long-term interest in the humanities.
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America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
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I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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