I also want to ask you for a constructive bipartisan dialogue this year to work to build a consensus which I hope will eventually lead to the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Until their hearts change and love overcomes hatred, the ancient animosities will continue. The global effort to equalize the standard of living for everyone is a misguided policy. Guaranteeing equal opportunity is freedom. Guaranteeing equal results is tyranny.
Diversity is a strength when people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds are unified.
But the current trend, including in the Administration, of intolerance for those who hold these same views that once held us together, and tolerance for all other views, will lead to further division and weakness. Unity, by definition, requires common ground. In a world where over a billion people live on less than a dollar a day, we also have got to do our part in the global endeavor to reduce the debts of the poorest countries, so they can invest in education, health care and economic growth. That's what the Pope and other religious leaders have urged us to do. And last year, Congress made a down payment on America's share.