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have a lower standard, the liberals (not me) accept it and for the Third World an even lower standard. I said to them, “I believe in only one standard. Either it's right or it's wrong. If it's right, then everybody has to be condemeed if they're not doing it.” I'm talking about standards of morality. And I said, “I happen to be one of those who believes in tyranticide. It's not a liberal position. The liberal position is you must never kill, and it's wrong for the government to be involved in tyranticide.” I said, to them, “Wouldn't we be better off today if Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin had been executed before they had killed each of them more than 50 million people? They were responsible for the deaths of 50 million people. Wouldn't the world be better off? Should we really condemn our country if they had managed to assist in that assassination? Not me. But there is that feeling.” I went through a whole host of issues. I think the one I concluded on they loved best of all when I said... They raised Ronald Reagan. “What do you think about Ronald Reagan's proposal about cutting $90 billion in federal expenditures and the criticisms made of him, that this is stupid?” I had read the Safire op ed column, and it was correct; it's whatever the media wants to make of what you're saying that labels it intelligent, acceptable or stupid, dumb. They want to label it dumb. There's nothing wrong with having the goal of wanting to cut $90 billion. We're not going