I'm deeply attached to the Puritan tradition, not in a religious sense, but they believed in working for something, working for goals, and I like that.

我深爱清教徒的传统，不是出于宗教原因，而是因为我喜欢他们为某事而努力、为目标而努力的信念。

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America has a long tradition of accommodating and encouraging religious institutions when they pursue public goals.

CNN: Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech

So does this mark a decisive defeat for al-Qaeda and its violent ideology, or perhaps an understanding that the ballot box offers a more effective way to achieve similar goals of society governed by religious principles and subject to Sharia law?

BBC: What the rise of political Islam is likely to spell

It appears that the U.S. is treating Iran differently than other countries trying to go nuclear because it perceives Iranian leaders as aggressive religious fanatics willing to sacrifice everything for their goals.

CNN: Nuclear deterrence could restrain N. Korea, Iran