And when we need to justify this, we need only point to the morning paper. Today's tells of a disgraced state legi slator who, during his campaign, claimed to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Another article describes how President Bill Clinton and candidate Bob Dole are using high gas prices to fuel their p olitical campaigns. The truth behind higher prices, however, seems to have been a traffic fatality on the road to the White House. This affects everything from the media and education to politics and personal life.
Integrity is the crucial element of go od citizenship.
It's more important to know if someone has integrity than to know whether I agree or disagree with him. If you lack integrity, nothing else you say you believe matters. Integrity is more than honesty, writes Carter, who als o authored the 1993 best-seller The Culture of Disbelief, which detailed how the law and popular culture trivialize religion. He dies, conscience clear. He was honest.