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Saddam Hussein raised atavistic questions about evil. But the West has grown preoccupied by newer forms -- greed, terrorism, drugs, AIDS, crime, child abuse, global pollution, oil spills, acid rain. The fear of nuclear holocaust, which not long ago was the nightmare at the center of the imagination, has receded with amazing speed...
...When ethical problems arise, the base is usually some act of greed or self- interest or money. I believe only a very small percentage of people who are in public office are guilty of wrongdoing, of abusing their public trust. But then I look at those people in public office who run against government -- and that, I think, is one reason why the role of the politician is so diminished in the eyes of the public...
...think there are certain enduring ethical standards, enduring values that don't change with the times. My definition of the ethical public servant is one who acts in the public interest, who is truthful, credible, honest, and who is able to turn from greed and selfhood to think in terms of others...
...1980s are characterized as the decade of greed, Greed with a capital G. Many of the savings and loans' problems were the outgrowth of extraordinary greed and chicanery by persons in the S&L industry. I call the S&L debacle a policy wreck. The people involved in it were motivated by greed and ambition, and we also had public officials, regulators, who were inattentive to their public post. Because of that inattention, we the taxpayers are going to have to pay that extraordinary amount...
...attack does, however, present the left with some rather exquisite problems of political correctness. After all, Columbus was an agent of Spain, and his most direct legacy is Hispanic America. The denunciation of the Spanish legacy as one of cruelty and greed has moved one Hispanic leader to call the NCC's resolution "a racist depreciation of the heritages of most of today's American peoples, especially Hispanics...