From a speech at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, March 28, 2006

The fact that one of our nation’s Founding Fathers should also be the founder of this university is a good starting point for my remarks. Thomas Jefferson personified—perhaps even epitomized—the proposition that good governance is based on good ideas, and that good ideas are based on respect for facts, rigor in thinking, rationality in debate, and civility in discourse.