When Newt Gingrich espouses a view based on morality, his own track record and history should cause any thinking person to give that view the weight it deserves which is darn little.

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Before Bush-Cheney, even if the rest of the world often chafed at America's acting like the world's policeman, most viewed America's actions as based on morality and a transparent rule of law.

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Perhaps Mr Lieberman's eclectic approach to politics is based on pragmatism as well as morality.

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"Questions based upon temperance, religion, morality, in all their multiplied forms, ought not to be the basis of politics, " declared Senator John Sherman of Ohio in 1873.

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But he thinks that business's case against the current system is based as much on self-interest as on morality.

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Adam Smith, who is considered the father of capitalism, viewed it as both competitive and cooperative, a societal system based on self-interest, self-restraint, morality and justice.

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