The day will come when the politicians will do the right thing for our people out of political necessity and not out of charity or idealism."
VOA: special.2009.09.06
Perhaps the most important is that in seeking to fix things, America will be acting neither outofcharity nor in pursuit of ideological ambition but simply in its own national interest.
And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not outof mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Lamentably, the two governors involved in this drama, New Jersey's Chris Christie and New York's Andrew Cuomo, have done nothing to stop the Port Authority's shameless gambit to squeeze more money outof a charity to which 900, 000 mostly small donors have contributed.